Increasing Alcohol Taxes to Fund Programs to Prevent and Treat Youth-Related Alcohol Problems

This Strategizer offers information for you to begin the debate on raising alcohol excise tax rates at the state and local levels. Adjusting state and local level tax rates makes sense because state and localities bear most of the burden of alcohol related problems in costs associated with law enforcement, emergency medical services, health care, homeless services, etc.

In addition to laying out the public health case for higher alcohol taxes, this Strategizer also provides responses to common smokescreens used by the alcohol industry and its supporters to block any tax hikes.

Available as a PDF document. (PDF file is 222KB and requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader)

http://www.cspinet.org/booze/Alcohol_Tax.pdf

Publisher

Center for Science in the Public Interest: Alcohol Policies Project
1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 300
Washington, dc 20009-5728
Phone: 202-332-9110
Website: http://www.cspinet.org/alcohol/