Rape more common than smoking in the US

wellingtonyoungfeminists:

[TW discussion of rape]

“Today an article published in on Significance Magazine’s web site, a publication of  the American Statistical Association and Royal Statistical Society, compared these rates to those of smoking – 18.3% of women over 18 reported being sexual assaulted in their lifetime while 17.4% of women reported smoking. Let consider this as we set health priorities.”

Via preventconnect.org

Rape is more common than smoking in the US. I’m just going to say it again in case you didn’t properly absorb that:

Rape is more common than smoking in the US.

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