Canadian Drinking-Age Laws Have Significant Effect on Deaths Among Young Males - See more at: http://www.unbc.ca/releases/11685/canadian-drinking-age-laws-have-significant-effect-on-deaths-among-young-males#sthash.z5Xio2MI.dpuf

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University of Northern British Columbia
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

A recent study by a University of Northern British Columbia-based scientist associated with the UBC Faculty of Medicine and UNBC’s Northern Medical Program demonstrates that Canada’s drinking-age laws have a significant effect on youth mortality. The study was published yesterday in the international journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. In it, Dr. Russell Callaghan writes that when compared to Canadian males slightly younger than the minimum legal drinking age, young men who are just older than the drinking age have significant and abrupt increases in mortality, especially from injuries and motor vehicle accidents.

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