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The Brazilian Experience

By Lawrence Taylor

As I’ve mentioned repeatedly in past posts, simply creating harsher drunk driving laws and penalties and increasing enforcement has not proven effective.  The simple fact is that despite MADD’s hysterical "War on Drunk Driving", the DUI-related fatality statistics have remained unchanged over the past dozen years.  See MADDness and MADD Statistics Again Debunked. Perhaps we can draw a lesson from our neighbors to the south: Beer-Loving Brazilians Adapt to the "Dry Law" Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  Dec. 22  -  …Six months ago, the government imposed one of the strictest drunken-driving laws in the hemisphere, what people here call the "dry law." Anyone caught driving with a blood alcohol content of ...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on December 26, 2008 (boomark / email).