HealthDay (8/9, Preidt) reports, “As a tool to reduce the public health toll of drinking, higher taxes on alcohol get the most bang for the buck,” researchers concluded. After examining “data from 16 countries to find out which of five alcohol-control strategies would be most cost-effective in reducing alcohol-related harm and deaths,” investigators found that “a 50 percent increase in alcohol excise taxes…would cost less than $100 for each healthy year of life gained in the overall population.” In addition, “it would add 500 healthy years of life for every one million people, the” study found. What’s more, “such a tax increase would be pennies per drink, according to” findings published online Aug. 9 in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
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— “For Pennies a Drink, Higher Taxes Would Help Counter Alcohol’s Toll: Study, “Robert Preidt, HealthDay, August 09, 2018.