"Drunk Driving." Issues & Controversies On File: n. pag. Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services, 27 June 2005. Web. 26 Sept. 2010. <http://www.2facts.com/article/i0401840>.
· “In 1998, almost 16,000 people died in alcohol-related accidents”.
· “MADD and its proponents claim that lowering the legal BAC would prevent hundreds of alcohol-related traffic deaths every year”.
· An important statistic is that scientists classify alcohol as a "depressant"--a type of drug that dulls the efficiency of the central nervous system.
· The more people drink they start to slur their words, move or walk clumsily and make impulsive or misguided decisions about what they should say or do.
· “Heavy alcohol consumption over a long period of time can have harmful effects on a person's mental and physical well-being”.
· “Today, statistics indicate that drunk-driving deaths have indeed decreased since 1982, when the NHTSA, a division of the Transportation Department, first began tracking alcohol-related accidents”.
· People believe that thoughts that were caught drinking and driving should face tougher consequences for what they have done than they do now.
· “Every state should be able to pass drunk-driving legislation to meet residents' particular needs and preferences, Republicans say”.
· “For example, they point out that New Mexico, a 0.08 state, had the highest rate of alcohol-related traffic deaths in the nation in 1996”.
· 170-pound man reaches 0.08 after drinking five 12-ounce beers within two hours.
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