I hope the following explanations help to dry out any wet blanket effect caused by reverting recent wiki edits.—dimitri
It seems to reinforce links between alcohol and entertainment, especially music, even though it was a country music video against alcohol.
FAS was not included because it's so rare and complicated.
Rare:
"Fetal alcohol syndrome is listed as a rare disease by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)."[1] The incidence rate in the USA is "approx 1 in 755,555 or 359 people" or "359 per year, 29 per month, 6 per week". Culture also seems very significant:
FAS rate per 10,000 births:
| Native Americans | 29.9 |
| African Americans | 6.0 |
| Caucasians | 0.9 |
| Hispanics | 0.8 |
| Asians | 0.3 |
Complicated:
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) describes a continuum of permanent birth defects caused by maternal consumption of alcohol during pregnancy, which includes, but is not limited to Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS).
Another issue is FAS being a mere subset of many tragic secondary effects of alcohol, meaning the primary victim is not the drinker. However the Mayo Clinic suggests a slightly larger problem: "As many as 40,000 babies are born with some type of alcohol-related damage each year in the United States. Fetal alcohol syndrome affects an estimated one to two out of every 1,000 births in the United States."[2]
Images have a way of enhancing or distracting from the potency of concepts encoded with text. I felt distracted by the inclusion of "this is you brain on alcohol" imagery. I think this page needs to be read, not passively watched or heard...