This report summarizes the results of hundreds of studies of alcohol excise taxes, health and safety.
The evidence is clear: alcohol excise tax increases save lives, reduce health care costs, create and preserve jobs, and prevent alcohol‐related problems.
These tax increases are a win‐win for the State: they prevent and reduce drinking and death among young people as well as among heavy drinkers, and they bring in additional revenues which can be used to create and preserve jobs and services.
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