Cliff wrote in
:

Alcohol is involved in nearly 40% of highway fatalities, of which
there have
been ~ 5,645 (per http://www.alcoholalert.com/deathclock.html) thus
far this year.
Would you & others be safer if everyone drove while drunk? After
all,
so many get home safely .... and being drunk may have saved a few
lives now & then ...

But your logic would dictate that we ban the automobile.

Speaking of booze... How many gun accidents and/or homicides involve
alcohol?

I'm betting it's as high or higher than the 40% highway statistic.

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Dan

Quid Aere Perennius