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The University of Victoria’s Centre for Addictions Research has proposed that the Canadian province of British Columbia set prices for beer, wine and liquor based on each product’s alcohol content, the Vancouver Sun reported Jan. 23.

Tim Stockwell, director of the center, said that products with more potential for social harm should be priced higher. “Every day in the paper you read about drink-driving problems, fetal alcohol syndrome, alcoholism and homelessness,” Stockwell. “The science is very clear that what the population does as a whole with regard to drinking affects how many people die each year, how many hospital admissions there are, how many road crashes, how many deformed babies. The list goes on and on, and on.”

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New Mexico officials denied a liquor license to US Airways after witnesses said they saw flight attendants serving alcohol to a visibly intoxicated passenger, the Albuquerque Journal reported Nov. 17.

The alleged incident occurred on the eve of the one-year anniversary of a horrific car crash involving a drunk US Airways passenger who killed six people. The driver, Dana Papst, was drinking on the flight before landing and getting behind the wheel of his car.

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