Because alcohol kills 2.5 million people annually -- more than AIDS, malaria or tuberculosis -- the World Health Organization should regulate alcohol at the global level, enforcing such regulations as a minimum drinking age, zero-tolerance drunken driving, and bans on unlimited drink specials, argues Devi Sridhar of the University of Oxford in a new commentary published by Nature. Americans drink 9.4 liters of ethyl alcohol per year on average -- equal to 94 bottles of 10 percent alcohol wine -- but aren't even in the top 50 of countries in alcoholic consumption. Moldava is first.
