Question

The World Health Organization Ministerial
Conference on Young people and Alcohol in
Stockholm last week revealed some disturbing
facts:
• 55,000 Young Europeans who died from
alcohol-related causes in 1999. One in four
deaths of European men aged 15 – 29 is
related to alcohol.
• $195 million: The estimated annual social
costs of alcohol consumption in the E.U. 70%
of the total represents earnings lost through
heavy drinking.
• 38%: Proportion of Welsh 13-year-old boys who
claim to have been drunk twice or more. Only
6% of Swiss boys of that age make the same
claim. The habit of drinking among Welsh boys
is heavier than among Swiss boys at the age of
13.
• 35%: Percentage of Danish 15-and-16-year-olds
who say they have been drunk at least 20 times.
In Norway about 16% of adolescents say the
same.
• 20%: Of 11-year-old Greek boys who say they
drink beer, wine or spirits at least once a week.
On Greenland only one in 100 boys and girls of
the same age drink regularly.
• 2%: proportion of Czech 15-year-old boys who
have never touched alcohol. In Israel around
22% of boys and 38% of girls of the same age
have abstained from drinking.
• 16%: Reduction in general alcohol consumption
in countries that ban advertisements for spirits.


It is correct to say that:
A)The aim of the conference is to evaluate alcohol
consumption in general.
B)The conference encompasses every single
country.
C)The World Health Organization had nothing to
do with the conference.
D)The conference disclosed some alarming
issues about young people drinking habits.
e) Doctors and public in general never knew that
the consumption of alcohol is abusive.

Answer 1

Resposta: D

Explicação:

O artigo revela os índices alarmantes de jovens (menores de idade) que regularmente consumem bebidas alcoólicas.