American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published online on August 18, 2008
American Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/aje/kwn219
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Taylor et al. Respond to "Alcohol and Trauma and Chronic Disease Mortality"
Correspondence to Dr. Benjamin Taylor, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 33 Russell Street, Room T411, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2S1 (e-mail: bennyjtaylor@gmail.com).
Received for publication May 29, 2008. Accepted for publication June 17, 2008.
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We thank Dr. Giesbrecht for his commentary (1) on our method of calculating lifetime risk of alcohol-attributable injury mortality (2) and its wider applications, specifically as part of an evidence-based tool in the construction of guidelines on low-risk drinking. Guidelines have often taken on a normative, indeed moral, cast, alongside the framing in terms of science and risk—particularly when industry influence is strong.