Talk:Differences in drinking laws

Alcohol: The Forbidden Fruit
Can anyone think of a better name for this section in the article? Unless it's the title of some published work the section is referring to, I think it needs to be changed to something that's a bit more streamlined for Wikipedia. — MearsMan  talk  13:48, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Merger
I support the proposed merger with legal drinking age, although some of it perhaps belongs at binge drinking. Cordless Larry (talk) 20:00, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Ambiguity of death rates
I looked at the Excel file from the WHO in the reference citation, and I could not find exactly how the death rates were calculated. The only ones were "cirrhosis" and "alcohol use disorder", and the sum of these gave very different numbers (actually higher ones) from those listed on the table.

Plus, where is Canada? That's a country that is similar in most ways to the USA, but notably differs in terms of the drinking age. And Canada's "cirrhosis" and "alcohol use disorder" death rates and DALYs appear to be lower than America's.Ajax151 (talk) 23:58, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

I am recalculating death rates by summing the age-standardized death rates for cirrhosis and alcohol-use disorders. Of course, there are other ways to die from booze, and not all cirrhosis is alcohol-related, but this is a decent (if conservative) estimate.Ajax151 (talk) 23:29, 3 July 2010 (UTC)