Figure 3.5 is titled "Current, Binge, and Heavy Alcohol Use among Adults Aged 18 or Older, by Employment Status: 2004." It is a bar graph, where the type of alcohol use is shown on the horizontal axis, and the percentage using in the past month is shown on the vertical axis. The three categories of alcohol use are current use, binge use, and heavy use. For each category of alcohol use, there is a bar for employed full time and a bar for unemployed.

Among persons employed full time 61.3 percent were current alcohol users while 56.6 percent of persons who were unemployed were current alcohol users.
Among persons employed full time 29.2 percent were past month binge alcohol users while 34.0 percent of persons who were unemployed were past month binge alcohol users.
Among persons employed full time 8.9 percent were past month heavy alcohol users while 13.6 percent of persons who were unemployed were past month heavy alcohol users.

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