One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
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The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
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Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.
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The Procrastinators' Club of America newsletter is called Last Month's Newsletter.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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