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Forty-four percent of college kids binge drink.

Here are 25 reasons to stop, or better yet, not start.

1. Have you seen your naked picture posted on the Internet?

2. Do you enjoy puking in bushes?

3. Friendships based on taste in movies, books, and bands last longer than friends who have the same taste in beer.

4. The 'buzz' level for drinking (4-5 drinks) is twice the legal limit for driving.

5. Double the 'buzz' level is enough to die.

6. Girls get drunker faster - this is NOT a reason to drink.

7. Girls have worse hangovers, are more susceptible to alcohol poisoning and blackouts.

8. Pinching, prodding, and shouting still hurt...but you feel them after you come to, IF you come to.

9. Ambulance rides cost money.

10. Drunks are responsible for property damage.

11. Drunks are responsbile for fistfights.

12. Drunks are responsible for date rape.

13. Drunks are responsible for sexual assault.

14. Drunks shoot at and sometimes hit one another.

15. Drunks pour vodka on non-drinkers laptops.

16. Drunks can't hit the commode when they pee.

17. Drunken men get more agressive and women more passive - again, this is NOT a reason to drink...besides, you won't remember it.

18. Drunks are more apt to misunderstand their sexual partner's real intentions.

19. Getting drunk will hurt your grades.

20. Getting drunk will damage friendships.

21. Getting drunk will cost you romance.

22. Getting drunk will sacrifice your image.

23. Getting drunk may cause you to be one of the 33% of college kids who are alcohol abusers.

24. Getting drunk may make you the one student in your 16 kid classroom that is alcohol dependent.

25. It's expensive - more money is spent on alcohol by college kids than on coffee, juice, tea, milk, soda and school books combined - $5.5 billion!

Is that enough reasons to not binge drink?

What do you think?