Table 2.

Prevalence of specific harms from others’ drinking in the US general population (weighted sample)

Verbatim Item Content	Ever %	Available na
Motor vehicular-related harms
Been a passenger with a driver who had too much to drink?	36.4	6615
Been in a motor vehicle accident because of someone else’s drinking?	7.2	6674
Aggression-related harms
Been pushed, hit, or assaulted by someone who had been drinking?	22.6	6546
Had your property vandalized by someone who had been drinking?	9.4	6492
Familial-related harms
Had family problems or marriage difficulties due to someone else’s drinking?	17.6	6662
Had financial trouble because of someone else’s drinking?	8.9	6669
1+ Harms from others’ drinking ever	53.1	5321
2+ Harms from others’ drinking ever	27.5	5321
3+ Harms from others’ drinking ever	14.0	5321

^aFull available sample for individual item affirmed ever; For 1 or more, 2 or more and 3 or more harms (of 6) the ns are limited to cases with policy favourability scale data and ever harmed from others’ drinking scale. Composite 6-item ‘harms from others’ drinking’ count scale (range 0–6; n = 6371) has Cronbach’s α = 0.65.