Study: Cities with Tougher Liquor Laws Have Fewer Alcohol-Related Traffic Deaths

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A study by researchers at the RAND Corporation found that cities that had lower fatality rates from alcohol-related traffic deaths generally had stricter liquor laws.

Deborah Cohen, M.D., MPH for RAND, conducted the study and found that cities with nine or fewer of the 20 key alcohol sales regulations had an alcohol fatality rate of close to one and a half times that of areas with 15 or more of the regulations.

"This study points out some of the immediate steps that a city or state agency can implement that are likely to reduce alcohol related traffic deaths," Cohen said.

"Cities and states that today do not control access to alcohol, are not careful about …