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To: flatsville who wrote (39041)	11/21/2000 9:54:48 AM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 436258

< There were significant increases in alcohol related crashes among young drivers, with 10-30% increases among new drivers in some states. Later analysis of the effect of various policies to reduce road fatalities attributed a 5-6% reduction to the higher drinking age reintroduced in 1984. The higher drinking age was associated with lower alcohol use among US teenagers across all demographic variables, with this pattern persisting in their early twenties ... > Not that I disagree with the higher drinking age... {undecided} but it's clear that a drinking age of 25 would reduce fatalities further no? Where this analysis does bother me is with things like speed limits... statistics show lower fatalities with the 55 mph speed limit, as if reducing it further to say 5 mph, or just outlawing driving in general wouldn't be even more effective. Luckily, the feds got out of the way on this one. DAK