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Universidade de São Paulo
2008
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- Young people’s blood alcohol concentration and the alcohol consumption city law, Brazil Raquel De Boni Carl Leukefeld Flavio Pechansky Salud Risk Taking Traffi c Accidents Risk factors The paper assesses blood alcohol concentration and risk behaviors for traffi c accidents before and after the implementation of a law which prohibits the use of alcoholic beverages on city gas stations. In Porto Alegre, Southern Brazil, young people go out at night and drive to gas station convenience stores to buy alcoholic beverages which are consumed on the premises of parking lots in gas stations. Data were obtained from self-administered questionnaires and breath analyzers in two cross-sectional collections with purposive samples of youngsters in May and July 2006 (n=62, and n=50, respectively). There were no signifi cant differences between the groups before and after the city law was passed. Blood alcohol concentration greater than 0.06% was found in 35.5% of pre-law group and 40% of post-law group (p=0.62). Results point out heavy alcohol use in both groups, which did not change after the law was passed. 2008 artículo científico 0034-8910 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=67240171018 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=672 Revista de Saúde Pública application/pdf Universidade de São Paulo Revista de Saúde Pública (Brasil) Num.6 Vol.42