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- NATION, Page 25American NotesTRENDSAn Ounce of Prevention
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- Americans may be united on many issues, but they certainly
- differ on how to manage their own health and safety. In a
- survey of more than 1,000 people in each of 32 states and the
- District of Columbia, taken in 1987 and released only last week,
- the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta found some vast
- disparities:
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- In South Dakota 72% of drivers ignore their seat belts; in
- safety-conscious Hawaii only 7% say that they fail to buckle up.
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- Nearly one-third of Kentuckians smoke, more than twice the
- proportion of the clean-living folks in Utah.
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- Nearly 30% of Wisconsinites reported they guzzle more than
- four drinks at a sitting. But in abstemious New Mexico, only
- 6.6% are bingers.
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- Nearly 60% of Marylanders had their cholesterol checked;
- fewer than 30% of New Mexicans bothered.
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