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I'm genuinely curious what can/should be done. If we ban it, people will still make it illegally, there will be violence, and we are in the same place that cannabis is now.

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I think many countries were successful in reducing the popularity of smoking cigarettes and if I'm not mistaken a big part of that was to ban advertising. As with cigarettes, we do know that alcohol is addictive and destructive. An advertising ban might be a good first step.

You could erase one of the mechanisms by making America a place where you can walk to a party or a bar, instead of driving there and then killing yourself with your car afterwards.

Also possible benefits from making America be a place where fewer want to commit suicides.

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