Increase in alcohol tax appears to have decreased gonorrhea rates in Maryland

Wednesday, December 9, 2015 - 14:48 in Health & Medicine

Increasing state alcohol taxes could help prevent sexually transmitted infections, such as gonorrhea, according to US researchers, who found that gonorrhea rates decreased by 24 percent in Maryland after the state increased its sales tax on alcohol in 2011.

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