Why does society accept a higher risk for alcohol than for other voluntary or involuntary risks?

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Funding Acknowledgements

The research leading to these results or outcomes has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013), under Grant Agreement number 266813 - Addictions and Lifestyle in Contemporary Europe - Reframing Addictions Project (ALICE RAP - http://www.alicerap.eu). Participant organizations in ALICE RAP can be seen at http://www.alicerap.eu/about-alice-rap/partner-institutions.html. The views expressed here reflect those of the authors only and the European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. We thank Gerrit Gmel and Kevin Shield for conducting some of the analyses leading to the estimation of odds of dying, and Ulrich Frick, Gerrit Gmel and the reviewers of BMC Medicine (Ian Gilmore, Wenbin Liang, Tim Stockwell) for helpful comments on earlier versions of this text. We thank Michelle Tortolo for referencing.