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Alcohol Content Fact Sheet

What Is a Standard Drink?

Teen and Binge Drinking 101

Alcohol: How It All Adds Up home

Alcohol is alcohol, no matter what you drink. A standard serving of beer, wine, and spirits contain essentially the same amounts of alcohol, and it affects your body the same way. These new Web pages give you the basics about the alcohol content of different alcoholic beverages and information about alcohol labeling so you will have the facts to drink responsibly.

For 30 years, the National Consumers League has called for the federal government to require standardized and complete labeling information on beer, wine and distilled spirits products. Read our White Paper on the subject.

Study after study has shown that parents have the most influence over their teen’s decision to drink. Learn more about teens and binge drinking:

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Incidents of Teen Drinking
• Responses to Teen Drinking
• More Resources for Parents and Teens about Alcohol
   

Related press releases:

NCL Challenges Myth that Some Alcoholic Beverages Are
'Safer' and 'Less Potent' (07.16.2008)

Consumer/Health Groups Unite in Pressing for a Final Rule Mandating a Standardized, Useful Alcohol Facts Label (04.22.2008)

• NCL, Shape Up America! White Paper (pdf)

• Sample Campaign Advertisement (pdf)

• Sally Greenberg's Remarks

NCL Recognizes TTB for Progress on Alcohol Labeling, but Expresses Disappointment in Agency for Taking Major Step Back from Recent Proposals (01.23.2008)

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