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Profile of Alcohol and Drug Indicators- Hillsborough County

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General Population Surveys: Adult Prevalence Rates<br />

Table 4. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Data<br />

<strong>Hillsborough</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />

Florida Statewide<br />

<strong>Alcohol</strong><br />

2005 2006 2007 2005 2006 2007<br />

Adults who have had at least 1 drink <strong>of</strong> alcohol within the past 30 days 53.0% 55.1% 55.4% 55.6% 53.6% 54.4%<br />

Heavy drinkers (adult men having more than two drinks daily, <strong>and</strong> adult 5.6% 5.2% 8.7% 6.9% 5.4% 6.2%<br />

women having more than one drink daily)<br />

Binge drinkers (adults having five or more drinks on one occasion) 14.3% 15.7% 17.5% 14.2% 13.8% 14.2%<br />

within the past 30 days<br />

Tobacco<br />

Current smoking (adults reporting having smoked 100 cigarettes in their 23.0% 20.1% 22.2% 21.7% 21.0% 19.3%<br />

lifetime <strong>and</strong> currently smoke)<br />

Note. Data retrieved from National Center for Disease Control’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System<br />

http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/index.htm<br />

• <strong>Hillsborough</strong> <strong>County</strong> Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data indicate that adult drinking, binge drinking,<br />

<strong>and</strong> heavy drinking increased from 2006 to 2007.<br />

• <strong>Hillsborough</strong> <strong>County</strong> heavy drinking, binge drinking, <strong>and</strong> smoking rates were all higher than state averages.<br />

14 t <strong>Pr<strong>of</strong>ile</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Alcohol</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Drug</strong> <strong>Indicators</strong> t December 2009

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