significantly more alcohol than FHN women in terms of mean drinks/week, the percentage of drinking days, and the maximum drinks/occasion. However, there was no difference between the two groups in the number of participants who had a least a single binge-drinking episode (≥ 4 drinks on a single occasion). Upon further inspection of the alcohol consumption data, 50% of women in the FHP group drank at a moderate drinker level (≥ 7 drinks/week; mean = 9.9 drinks/week) and 50% of women in the FHP group drank at a light drinker level (< 7 drinks/week; mean = 2.3 drinks/week). FHP women also tended to consume more caffeine than FHN women. Among those who drank caffeine daily, the mean consumption was the equivalent of 0.78 and 1.67 cups of coffee for the FHN and FHP groups respectively, with a maximum of 4 cups/day in both groups. There were no significant differences between the two groups with respect to the number of individuals who smoked tobacco cigarettes or marijuana. None of the 7 women who reported currently smoking cigarettes met criteria for nicotine dependence and only 4 women reported smoking on a daily basis (range of 4–7 cigarettes/day). For those women who smoked
