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Drunken driving, sometimes called America’s socially accepted form of murder, has become a national

epidemic. Every hour of every day about three Americans on average are killed by drunken drivers, adding up to

an incredible 250,000 over the past decade.

A drunken driver is usually defined as one with a 0.01 blood alcohol content or roughly three beers, glasses

of wine or shots of whisky drunk within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be an acceptable part of the American

macho image and judges were lenient in most court, but the drunken slaughter has recently caused so many well-

publicized tragedies, especially involving young children, that public opinion is no longer so tolerant.

Twenty states have raised the legal drinking age to 21, reversing a trend in the 1960s to reduce it to 18.

After New Jersey lowered it to 18, the number of people killed by 18 - 20-year-old drivers was more than double,

so the state recently upped it back to 21.

Reformers, however, fear raising the drinking age will have little effect unless accompanied by educational

programmes to help young people to develop “responsible attitudes” about drinking and teach them to resist peer

pressure to drink.

Tough new laws have led to increased arrests and tests and, in many areas already, to a marked decline in

fatalities. Some states are also penalizing bars for serving customers too many drinks. A tavern in Massachusetts

was fined for serving six or more double brandies to a customer who was “obviously intoxicated” and later drove

off the road, killing a nine-year-old boy.

As the fatalities continue to occur daily in every state, some Americans are even beginning to speak well of

the 13 years of national prohibition of alcohol that began in 1919, what President Hoover called the “noble

experiment”. They forget that legal prohibition didn’t stop drinking, but encouraged political corruption and

organized crime. As with the booming drug trade generally, there is no solution.