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benEzra

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Thu Jan-14-10 04:59 PM
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52. The NIH puts the number of alcohol deaths/yr at 100,000.

Edited on Thu Jan-14-10 05:02 PM by benEzra

http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/10report/intro.pdf

Drunk driving is only one facet. Others are alcohol-related non-motor-vehicle accidents (falls, drownings, bike accidents, pedestrian accidents if not already counted in the DOT numbers), fatal overdose, alcohol-related homicide, alcohol-related suicide, alcohol-related diseases (e.g., liver diseases and alcohol-related cancers), and secondary causes related to alcoholism.

Note that I do *not* support banning alcohol, but alcohol does appear to kill more people than the individual numbers for guns, knives, impact weapons, all vehicle accidents, and illegal drugs combined, and alcohol is involved in a substantial percentage of deaths from those causes (except perhaps illegal drugs).

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Reply #52: The NIH puts the number of alcohol deaths/yr at 100,000. [View All]