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    1. France has a problem with alcohol similar to the US with guns: - deep cultural roots - a powerful and organized lobby to fight any kind of regulation - a *lot* of avoidable deaths (41.000 each year in France due to alcohol sante.lefigaro.fr/article/en-france-7-des-deces-sont-attribuables-a-l-alcool/) - an intense cultural denial
  1. …in reply to @simardcasanova
    Alcohol kills 88.000 persons each year in the US, which is twice as much as in France, whereas the US population is *five times larger* than the French population cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm