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Drunken driving—sometimes called America’s socially accepted form of murder—has become a national (36) . Every hour of every day about three American’s on (37) are killed by drunken drivers, adding up to an (38) 250,000 over the past decade. A drunken driver is usually defined as one with a 0. 10 blood alcohol content or (39) three beers, glasses of wine or shots of whisky drunk within two hours. Heavy drinking used to be an acceptable part of the American man image and judges were tolerant in most courts, but the drunken (40) has recently caused so many well-publicized tragedies, especially involving young children, that public opinion is no longer so tolerant. Twenty states have raised the legal drinking age to 21, (41) a trend in the 1960s to reduce it to 18. Reformers, however, fear raising the drinking age will have little effect unless (42) by educational programs to help young people to develop responsible attitudes about drinking and teach them to resist (43) pressure to drink. Tough new laws have led to increased arrests and tests and, in many areas already, to a marked decline in fatalities. (44) . A bar in Massachusetts was fined for serving six or more double brandies to a customer who was obviously drunk and later drove off the road, killing a nine-year-old boy. (45) that began in 1919, what President Hoover called the noble experiment. (46) . As with the booming drug trade generally, there is no easy solution.