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.. More Americans in the past year embraced wide-ranging risky behavior
- from violence to substance abuse to terrible eating-according to data
emerging across industries and public research groups ..
Gun violence spiked in 2020 and shows no signs of abating .. About 19,400
Americans died from gun violence in 2020 .. The number of mass shootings
.. also jumped from 417 in 2019 to 611 last year ..
It gets worse: Some 336 mass shootings have been reported so far in 2021,
a 20% increase over this point in 2020. And in the first three months of
2021, most large U.S. cities reported year-over-year increases in
homicides .. A record 22.8 million guns sold across the United States
in 2020, up 64% from 2019 ..
.. U.S. alcohol retailers' total sales to soar nearly 20% in 2020 ..
The 90,722 Americans who died from drug overdoses between December 2019
and November 2020, represent a more than 29% jump from a year prior ..
The troubling rise of fentanyl, a lab-made opioid that's far more potent
than heroin, and increasingly common in the United States. This trend
predates the coronavirus ..
Americans spent 7.5% more at quick service restaurants (including fast
food chains) between June 2020 and May 2021 .. Junk food enjoyed a
banner 2020 .. up by nearly 10% ..
Widespread stay-at-home orders during the pandemic .. The federal agency
estimated 38,680 people died on roadways in 2020 - the most deaths since
2007 - and a 7.2% increase over the 2019 death toll ..
Cigarette sales jumped 2.4% during 2020 compared to the previous year ..
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) opened 183 probes into
passengers last year - a 25% jump from 2019 - a surge in air travel
belligerence even as the number of travelers plummeted by 60%. And it
has only escalated in 2021 .. Some travelers are ornery, argumentative
and violent before their flight even takes off ..