Topics At A Glance: Alcohol

Use Alcohol or Abstain

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Do you have occasion to use alcoholic beverages such as liquor, wine or beer, or are you a total abstainer?

Gallup Poll, [Jul, 2011]

Do you have occasion to use alcoholic beverages such as liquor, wine or beer, or are you a total abstainer?

Gallup Poll, [Jul, 2010]

Do you have occasion to use alcoholic beverages such as liquor, wine or beer, or are you a total abstainer?

Gallup Poll, [Jun, 2009]

Alcohol Use

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About how many drinks of any kind of alcoholic beverages did you drink in the past seven days?

Note: Asked of those who ever drink alcoholic beverages (64%)
Gallup Poll, [Jul, 2011]

Do you most often drink liquor, wine, or beer?

Note: Those who drink alcohol (64%)
Gallup Poll, [Jul, 2011]

Do you most often drink liquor, wine, or beer?

Note: Asked of those who ever drink alcohol (67%)
Gallup Poll, [Jul, 2010]

Alcohol Abuse

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(Thinking now about black families. In general, how much of a problem do you think each of the following is for black families today?) How about...drugs and alcoholism? Is this a big problem for black families today, somewhat of a problem, or not a problem?

Note: Blacks
Pew Research Center/NPR Racial Attitudes in America Survey, [Oct, 2009]

Now, thinking about some specific problem areas. For each item that I read, please tell me who you think could do the best job of providing services to people in need....Treatment for drug and alcohol addiction...Who could do the best job providing these types of services: a religious organization, a non-religious community-based group, or a federal or state government agency?

Note: Asked of Form 1 half sample
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press/Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life Religion & Public Life Survey, [Aug, 2009]

(There are a lot of challenges facing people in the United states today. This survey is about one of those challenges--addiction. Addiction can mean abuse or dependence on a substance like alcohol, prescription drugs, illegal drugs, or the nicotine in cigarettes. Or it can mean a compulsion to gamble, shop, spend, eat too much, or to be unable to control sexual impulses.) I am going to read you a list of possible addictions. As I do, please tell me whether you think each of these addictions is a major problem, a minor problem, or not a problem at all for Americans who are age 40 or older....Alcoholism

AARP Hispanic Addiction Survey, [Mar, 2009]

Alcohol as a Family Problem

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Has drinking (alcoholic beverages) ever been a cause of trouble in your family?

Gallup Poll, [Jul, 2011]

Has drinking (alcoholic beverages) ever been a cause of trouble in your family?

Gallup Poll, [Jul, 2007]

Has drinking ever been a cause of trouble in your family?

Note: Asked of those who ever drink alcoholic beverages (64%)
Gallup Poll, [Jul, 2006]

Alcohol and Youth

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(For each item I name, please tell me at what age you think it's appropriate for a child under 18 to do that. If you think it's not appropriate for a child at any age, just tell me that.) At what age do you think is it appropriate for a child to...have a glass of beer or wine with the family at dinner or a special event? (If 18 or more, ask:) I mean any age through age 17, or not for any child?

ABC News/Good Morning America Weekend Poll, [Feb, 2010]

How realistic is the expectation that a teenager will not drink alcohol until age 21: is this a very realistic expectation, a fairly realistic expectation, a fairly unrealistic expectation, or a very unrealistic expectation?

CASA 2009 Attitudes on Substance Abuse Survey, [Mar, 2009]

Some parents tell us that once a child becomes a teenager, parents have very little influence over their decisions of whether they will smoke, drink, or try illegal drugs. Do you agree strongly, agree somewhat, disagree somewhat, or disagree strongly with this opinion?

CASA 2009 Attitudes on Substance Abuse Survey, [Mar, 2009]

Drinking and Driving

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Should texting while driving be punished more severely than drunk driving, less severely than drunk driving, or about the same as drunk driving?

CBS News Poll, [Oct, 2009]

Should texting while driving be punished more severely than drunk driving, less severely than drunk driving, or about the same as drunk driving?

Note: Those who said sending a text message while driving should be illegal (97%)
CBS News/New York Times Poll, [Oct, 2009]

(How much if anything, have you heard about each of the following? Have you heard a lot, a little or nothing at all?)...A woman who killed eight people driving drunk the wrong way on a New York highway

Pew Weekly News Interest Index Poll, [Aug, 2009]

From the Archives

During the last three months, on about how many different occasions, if any, did you happen to see T.V. (television) commercials promoting the 'designated driver' concept?

Gallup Poll, [Jan, 1989]

(Let us suppose the government needed to raise taxes. For each of the following please tell me if you would favor or oppose raising that tax.)... Raising alcohol and tobacco taxes?

Sample: National--Registered Voters
NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll, [Jan, 1990]

If the question of national prohibition should come up again, would you vote to make the country dry?

Gallup Poll, [Dec, 1937]