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References

1. MADD, "Total Traffic Fatality vs. Alcohol Related Traffic Fatality", http://www.madd.org/stats/0,1056,1298,00.html

2. National Transportation Statistics 2001 Table 1-29 (Bureau of Transportation Statistics), http://www.bts.gov/publications/nts/html/table_01_29.html

3. National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/databases/consum01.txt

4. National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/databases/crash02.txt. Note that the crash fatalities statistics here are outdated compared to the MAAD data in Ref. 1. See the bottom of Ref. 1 for details. Note that the qualitative relationship between alcohol-related traffic fatalities per 100 Million miles driven and the alcohol consumption per capita remains the same regardless of whether the data from Ref. 1 or Ref. 4 are used. 

5. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Alcohol and Crime: An Analysis of National Data on the Prevalence of Alcohol Involvement in Crime, 1998,  http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/ac.pdf

6. NHTSA, Traffic Safety Facts 2001: Alcohol, http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSF2001/2001alcohol.pdf

7. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), Fatality Facts: Alcohol, October 2001, http://www.iihs.org/safety_facts/fatality_facts/alcohol.htm

8. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), Fatality Facts: General, October 2001, http://www.iihs.org/safety_facts/fatality_facts/general.htm

9. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), Fatality Facts: Passenger Vehicles, October 2001, http://www.iihs.org/safety_facts/fatality_facts/passveh.htm

10. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), Fatality Facts: Teenagers, October 2001, http://www.iihs.org/safety_facts/fatality_facts/teens.htm

11. J. P. Nelson, Alcohol Advertising and Advertising Bans: A Survey of Research Methods, Results, and Policy Implications, (2001?), http://econ.la.psu.edu/Research/wpapers/jpn(7-01-2).pdf

12. FTC Reports - Alcohol Appendix B, http://www.ftc.gov/reports/alcohol/appendixb.htm. As stated here, the advertising dollars in measured media may constitute only a fraction of the total advertising expenditures of alcohol producers.

13. NHTSA, Traffic Safety Facts 2000, http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSFAnn/TSF2000.pdf

14. NHTSA, Traffic Safety Facts 1997, http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/TSFAnn/TSF97.pdf

15. T. M. Nephew, et al., NIAAA, Surveillance Report #55, Apparent Per Capita Alcohol Consumption: National, State and Regional Trends, 1977-98, http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/Cons98.pdf