But after bolstering their laws, some states are beginning to report reductions in the number of alcohol-related deaths.
The drunken driving crusade reduced alcohol-related deaths by a third.
Each band recorded a song originally by some famous rock artist who had suffered a drug- or alcohol-related death.
Media reports of alcohol-related death and mutilation on the nation's roads are legion.
The division reports a 50 percent decline in alcohol-related deaths from 1989 to 1993.
And if the division's own statistics are to be believed, alcohol-related deaths declined in just one year, from 1992 to 1993, by 30 percent.
The reasons range from not meeting academic standards to alcohol-related deaths.
The panel was set up a few years ago after an alcohol-related death at Rutgers.
In 1998, alcohol-related driving deaths reached a record low of 15,935, down from about 28,000 in 1980.
There are some 9 000 alcohol-related deaths every year on our roads.
