Facts Can Save Your Life

After reading chapter five, I am compelled to begin checking facts more frequently. I always knew that there as a ridiculous mark up on alcohol, but never to the extent that I read about here. It's crazy to think that executives actually sit in a room and decide that by marking up their product it would deceive consumers in thinking their product is better. The scarier part of the chapter is the lie that women believe that breast cancer is the number one killer in women, and neglect the harsh reality of heart disease being the leading killer. I agree that breast cancer gets more publicity because a lot of women are living survivors of the cancer. It made me realize that there are other leading killers that I need to be worried about as a woman, and not just breast cancer. The part about deception in what people "think" others are doing opened my eyes to a lot of the activity that teenagers and young college students engage in during their years at school. It's so true that teens and college students assume that because you're in college, you need to drink and party every night in order to be "normal." If more students realized that not everyone thinks like that, it may lower a lot of the alcohol poisoning rates, STDs, and unwanted pregnancies that tend to occur after engaging in obsessive alcohol use.