bluskis,
What don't you like about the graph? Is it the minimum? Is it the fact that the incidence of traffic accidents is higher when intoxicated?
As I have already said, I don't have the figures, the graph is from memory, you should take it as anecdotal or even a rumour. However I do understand the need to justify anything presented like this, certainly if I was going to publish it in some respected journal - which this board is not.
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BUT, Here is a link to a web page which you might find useful.
<a href="http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Misc/driving/s9p2.htm" target="_blank">Accidents, Alcohol and Risk</a>
Here you will find a graph which shows the horrendous increase in relative risk when you are on the UK legal limit and what happens beyond. The minimum is not as pronounced as on my not to scale graph, but if you look at the figures the effect is there. I suspect that my graph (back from my lecture in the early 1980s) was derived from figures from Borkenstein et al. (1964). If you read this paper you will see that the minimum was considered "problematic" but appears to have been found again.
You can do your own literature search from now <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">
Rowley
Just a flippant throw away emotional bit. Sorry about that, of course looks don't really matter once you are dead. However I do get sadder when a young person in the prime of their life gets snuffed out more than somebody aged in their 90s. You know, I guess I'm not really sorry about that at all.
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