Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Statistics Of Drugged Driving in US

According to the National Roadside Survey made in 2007, by National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration’s (NHTSA), night time drivers and weekend illegal drug abused and prescription drug abused are more than 16%. More than 11% are abusing illicit drugs.

During an year prior to the survey by National Drug on Drug Use and Health, in the year 2008, it is estimated that 10 million people of the age group more than 12 years are driving under the influence of illicit drugs. This is nearly equal to 4 % of the population of the age 12 and even above and 4.2% in 2007 and 4.7% in 2002.

The percentage is highest for the persons of age group 18 to 25 in 2008 and it is 12.3%. In 2008, 7.2% of the 16 and 17 years teens drove under the influence of illicit drugs. The percentage has been increased with the age and it reached to 26.1% among the age group of persons around 21 to 25 years. This drugged driving is more among youth and when it comes to people above 25 years, the rates are being decreased continuously.

Even the male percent of drugged driving is more and is twice that of female percent and they are 16% and 9% respectively.

Monday, June 21, 2010

Harmful Effects Of Alcohol On Body

Although alcohol is a legal drug it also has many harmful effects. Alcohol abuse is addictive. If the consumption of the alcohol is more then it affects the person individually, affects his family, financial ststus as well as destroys his social image.

According to the World Health Organization, Alcohol is the major cause for early deaths and for the disability of people after tobacco in well developed countries. The harmful health effects of consuming the alcohol in high quantities leads to more than 60 health disorders like heart, liver, diabetes, strokes, mental health problems.

Severe Consumption of alcohol leads to muscle in co-ordination, respiratory depression, hypotension, coma, depressed reflexes, stupor, and blurred vision.
Because of the liberalization of availability and price and even by the reduction of the features regarding improving public health alcohol consumption has been increased.

Alcohol plays a major role in breaking down the personal relationships and even families in some cases and also creates violent atmosphere. The alcohol addicted persons disagree to the point that they are suffering because of the alcohol consumption and they even say that many people are even more consuming than them.

It is very common now-a-days to see the patients who are suffering with fatty livers between 30s and 40s because of the alcohol consumption during very early days or consumption in 20s.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Common Mistakes While Marketing Online

Online marketing is not an easy kind of job, at the same time it is not a tough job too. A proper planning and effective guidance is the major key for profitable online marketing. But, generally following three common mistakes are done by new internet marketers.
  • Spending of all advertising funds in One Place – This type of mistakes are mostly done by new internet marketers because they think that focusing all advertising efforts in one place will give better result. They generally think that just by simply investing for a large banner ad in a high traffic website will bring them visitors and eventually sales.
  • Giving Up too Soon – Many new internet marketers quit this business very early because they expect too much. Example – they post one article and expect that everyone is going to buy their products from that article.
  • Lack of Follow Up - For better sale and relationship with visitors following up is the main key. If an internet marketer fails to follow up with the visitor then it will be a half marketing effort.
All these are the basic and most common mistakes of online marketing. New internet marketers will face these problems but if they sustained and deal these problems with real effort then they can make huge profits.