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| quote: | Originally posted by Dublin Guy
alcohol kills almost 250,000 ppl each year which is pretty shameful and stupid only reason its legal coz its a nice taxable drug
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yes 250,000 people out of maybe 1 billion drinkers world wide.
thats a pretty small percentage.
i hate people using high numbers of deaths or ER visits as a case against alcohol. of course the numbers are going to be higher because there are sooooooo many people in the world that drink alcohol.
and most of those deaths or ER visits are drunk driving incidents. for both the people who were the drunks and not the drunks.
its bad use of statistics that is evil 
anyway, the main reason it is legal is because its been socialy accepted by so many people for so long. and once its already established itself very well and has large alcohol companies which can lobby its pretty hard to get it to go away. besides our wonderful country tried it once. did alot of good...
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