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To the Editor: One way to reduce alcohol-related crashes, the subject of the Special Article by Brewer et al. (Aug. 25 issue),¹ is to reduce consumption by raising the price of alcoholic beverages. There is a strong relation between total alcohol consumption in a population and deaths from vehicular crashes; for every percent decrease in alcohol consumption, there is an approximately equal reduction in the number of deaths from vehicular crashes.² The price of alcoholic beverages has not increased as rapidly as inflation, so the current cost is relatively low. So-called sin taxes are unpopular, but imposing a tax on . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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