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<b>The Drunkest City in Each State</b><b><br>
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Excessive drinking cost the United States $250 billion in 2010,
according to a 2015 study from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC). The study estimated lost productivity and added
health care costs associated with alcohol consumption. States report
different drinking habits, as do metropolitan areas within each
state.
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<p>Binge drinking is defined by the CDC as consuming four or more
drinks for women and five or more drinks for men during a single
sitting. The organization defines heavy drinking as around 15 or
more drinks consumed by men per week, and typically eight or more
drinks for women. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the metropolitan areas
(MSA) reporting the highest levels of binge and heavy drinking in
each state. El Paso leads Texas and the nation, with 56.2% of
adults reporting binge or heavy drinking in the metropolitan area.
Salt Lake City, where 12.6% of adults report such a drinking
habit, is the booziest city in Utah.</p>
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<p><strong>12. Idaho<br>
> Drunkest city:</strong> Lewiston<br>
<strong>> Pct of MSA adults binge or heavy drinking:</strong>
18.6%<br>
<strong>> Pct. of state adults binge or heavy drinking:</strong>
14.5%<br>
<strong>> Pct of driving deaths alcohol related:</strong> 25.6%</p>
<p>Of Idaho’s five metro areas, a state-high 18.6% share of Lewiston
adults report excessive drinking. Lewiston adults may drink more
heavily than Idaho residents as a whole, they are less likely to
drive under the influence than residents in other parts of the
state. Alcohol is involved in 25.6% of deadly car accidents in
Lewiston, 6.2 percentage points less than the 31.8% of
alcohol-related car accident fatalities in the rest of the state.
However, Lewiston residents have worse health outcomes than
residents across both the state and the nation, likely due in part
to the incidence of excessive drinking. Lewiston residents lost an
aggregate of 8,594 years of potential life per 100,000 people last
year due to premature death, compared to the corresponding 6,046
years of life lost in Idaho and 6,622 years of life lost
nationwide.<br>
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