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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 12:01 AM
Response to Reply #114
131. Common sense
You serve alcohol in a bar and people leave bar to drive home (or any other food place that sells alcohol).

---There were 16,694 alcohol-related fatalities in 2004 – 39 percent of the total traffic fatalities for the year.

The 16,694 fatalities in alcohol-related crashes during 2004 represent an average of one alcohol-related fatality every 31 minutes.

NHTSA estimates that alcohol was involved in 39 percent of fatal crashes and in 7 percent of all crashes in 2004.

In 2004, 21 percent of the children age 14 and younger who were killed in motor vehicle crashes were killed in alcohol-related crashes.

An estimated 248,000 people were injured in crashes where police reported that alcohol was present — an average of one person injured approximately every 2 minutes.
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http://www.alcoholalert.com/drunk-driving-statistics.html

So 17,000 (or 250,000) is not enough for you?

Add that to all the info above and is smoking more of a threat than drinking??

IF we are serious about saving others from things then why we still allow drinking??
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