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Did they cite age specific death rates?

Population is up 20-30%, and the population of people likely to die of alcohol poisoning much more so due to changing age structure.

Additionally, we lost a generation that had memories of prohibition and an active temperance movement, and we've had a dramatic increase in women's labor force and higher education participation, enabling them to drink as often as men.

So the "doubled" comment seems overly dramatic



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