A survey of over 7000 New England college students revealed that fewer than 5% of both men and women abstain from alcohol, that men tend to drink more than women and that both men and women drink more frequently as they progress in college; high-school drinking patterns were more important than any other variable in determining alcohol use in college.
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Wechsler et al. (1979) studied this question.
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