The American Way of Choice.

• Position: Popular culture statistics, United States - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included

The American Way of Choice Number of types of packaged bread 104 available at a Safeway in Lake Ridge, Virginia Number of those breads containing 0 no hydrogenated fat, diglycerides, or "dough conditioners" Amount spent by the fast food $3,000,000,000 industry, whose products have been implicated in cancer, on television advertising per year Amount spent promoting the National $1,000,000 Cancer Institute's "Five A Day" program, which encourages the consumption of fruits and vegetables to prevent cancer and other diseases Number of new models of cars 197 available to suburban residents in 2001 Number of convenient alternatives 0 to the car available to most such residents Number of U.S. daily newspapers 1,483 in 2000 Number of companies that control 6 the majority of those newspapers Number of leisure hours the average 35 American has per week Number of hours the average 28 American spends watching television per week Number of "coffee drinks" available 26 at Starbucks, whose stores accommodate a stream of over 5 million customers per week, most of whom hurry in and out Number of "coffee drinks" available 2 to Jack Kerouac, Allan Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and other Beatnik writers as they sat in Greenwich Village coffee houses listening to jazz and...