When Alaska raised its alcoholtax in 1983, deaths caused by or related to alcohol dropped 29 percent.
当阿拉斯加1983年提高酒精税，由酒精所引起或与之相关的死亡人数下降了29%。
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Nearly half of the states have had the same alcohol taxes for more than 20 years, and Wyoming hasn't raised its tax on alcohol since the 1930s, thus not keeping up with inflation.
In 2004, a one-third decrease in the alcoholtax led to a significant drop in the prices of alcoholic beverages in Finland. As a result, total alcohol consumption in that country leapt by 10 percent.