SF Wins Bronze Medal In Alcohol Abuse
Bottom line, Jeff VanVonderen and Candy Finnigan would not be pleased.
San Francisco, it seems, placed third in Forbes' America's Hard-Drinking Cities list. Or so says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2007 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey.
Yay.
Here's the breakdown:
1. Austin, TX
2. Milwaukee, WI
3. San Francisco, CA
4. Providence, RI
5. Chicago, IL
8. (tie) Seattle, WA, Cleveland, OH, St. Louis, MO
9. Boston, MA
10. Cincinnati, OH
11. Pittsburgh, PA
12. Virginia Beach, VA
13. Portland, OR
14. Jacksonville, FL
15. Detroit, MI
(Eat it, Providence.)
But as The Consumerist points out, "a better 'hard drinkin'' rank doesn't mean your city is a 'den of debauchery.'" (Well, SF is said den, but...still.) Anyway, the survey came down to three questions:
[W]hether they had at least one drink of alcohol within the past 30 days; whether men had more than two drinks per day or women one drink per day; and whether they had five or more drinks on one occasion.
Women, so dainty! We'll drink to that.
(Via The Consumerist)
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