Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ryan of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that public education financed by drunk driving fines would be the best way to attack the problem. But any program that would cost a large amount of money, no matter how worthwhile it might be, is unlikely to make it through the 50 statehouses anytime soon...
...meantime, a number of conclusive studies in Europe and the United States show that, in the long run, stricter punishments for drunk driving don't affect the death rate. Immediately after tough new laws are passed, there is only a temporary dip in the number of drunk driving incidents, the DWI level returning to its previous level within two years...
...PROBLEMS remain, and new, cheap strategies to change people's attitudes toward drunk driving are necessary until sufficient funds are forthcoming...
...stamp "Convicted of Driving While Intoxicated" on the driver's license of anyone guilty of DWI. A DWI offender would be stigmatized whenever he writes a check at a local supermarket, or gets carded in a local bar. Nobody wants a gossipy supermarket clerk to know he drove drunk...
Still another potentially useful defense against the drunk driving problem is the press. How would potential drunk drivers like to find their names in the Sunday paper under a column that says, "These people endangered you by driving drunk...