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19 million new STD cases occur every year.

50% of new STD cases are of people ages 15-24.

Half of all new AIDS patients each year are teenagers.

Syphilis was almost wiped out completely 6 years ago. Recently it has been making a comeback.

There are 2.8 million new cases of Chlamydia each year.

Teen girls are 3 times more likely to contract Chlamydia than teen boys.

Less than half of teenagers learn about STD's at their schools.

13% of teens report having has a serious problem as a result of underage drinking

3 in 10 teen girls become pregnant at least once by the time they are 20.

The US has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the civilized Western world.

Teen pregnancy costs the US more than $7 Billion each year.

1 in 10 girls who has had sex before the age of 15 describes it as involuntary.

70% of sexually active teen girls said they wish they had waited to have sex.

1 in 2 sexually active teens will contract an STD before age 25.

40% of teens think that the contraceptive pill and shot protect against STDs. This is not true.

Some teens don't realize that oral and a**l sex still puts you at the same risk of STDs.

22% of high school students nationwide are not taught about HIV/AIDS in school.

Think everyboday is doing it? Not true. More than half of teens are not sexually active by the time they graduate high school.

Nationally, nearly one million young women under age 20 become pregnant each year. That means close to 2800 teens get pregnant each day.

Teens 16 to 19 were three and one-half times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault.

In the U.S., 1 in 4 sexually active teens become infected with an STD every year.2 Some common STDs are chlamydia, gonorrhea, genital warts (also known as HPV - human papillomavirus), and herpes.

Approximately 80% of adult smokers started smoking before the age of 18. Every day, nearly 3,000 young people under the age of 18 become regular smokers.
More than 5 million children living today will die prematurely because of a decision they will make as adolescents---the decision to smoke cigarettes.

Among young people, those with poorer grades and lower self-images are most likely to begin using tobacco.

More than 40% of teens who admitted drinking said they drink when they are upset; 31% said they drink alone; 25% said they drink when they are bored; and 25% said they drink to "get high."

Each year, students spend $5.5 billion on alcohol, more than they spend on soft drinks, tea, milk, juice, coffee or books combined. On a typical campus, per capita students spending for alcohol--$446 per student--far exceeds the per capita budget of the college library

Nearly one-third of college students surveyed said they wished alcohol was not available at campus events, and nearly 90% wished that other drugs would disappear from campuses.

Approximately 240,000 to 360,000 of the nation's 12 million current undergraduates will ultimately die from alcohol-related causes--more than the number that will get MAs and PhDs combined.

Sixty percent of college women diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease were drunk at the time of infection.

Eight young people a day die in alcohol-related crashes

1 in 5 girls have contracted HPV in the US. And thats just ONE of the major STDs.