Provides answers to questions such as, why increase excise taxes, what effects to expect from a tax increase, how an increase affects the price of alcohol, how higher alcoholic beverage taxes affect sales, how reduced sales affect alcohol problems, and how alcohol tax revenues can be used. The publication also suggests what coalitions can do to increase alcohol excise tax rates, including identifying and quantifying some of the major economic and social costs of alcohol use.
Sponsored By
Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA), Cooperation with the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
Year Resource Released
2001