Letters: Prohibit driving after any drinking

I have never seen any good come from the use of alcohol. Yet articles from The State glorify alcohol consumption, reporting on beer festivals, wine-tasting galas and making your own alcohol, while underage drinking remains rampant.

But while I feel the deepest sympathy for the families who have lost loved ones because drivers were intoxicated (“Suits rise as families fight bars that serve too much,” Sept. 6), I don’t think lawsuits are the right solution.

You don’t have to be intoxicated to be demonstrably impaired. And many factors can affect how impaired an individual may be: speed of consumption, body weight, food in stomach, type of alcohol, mixer used, temperature of drink, tolerance, other drug consumption, body type, fatigue/stress and gender. Thus, it is not logical to think that a bartender, waiter or waitress should be held responsible for judging when a drinking adult is too impaired to drive.

What is logical is to change our law so it’s illegal to drive with any alcohol in the body. That makes it simple: If you plan to drive, do not consume any alcohol.