Alcohol--Worst Drug in the World

A recent study has claimed that alcohol is the most harmful drug in the world. Based off the criteria in the survey, alcohol is three times as bad compared to tobacco and cocaine. Heroin, speed and ecstasy also fell second to alcohol. History has shown that big business can escape the demands seth forth by the government. For example direct government and tax expenditures have had little effect on the tobacco indusrty. Each year federal and state governments raise taxes on cigarettes--yet people still purchase these products and fall ill to them. In regards to the addictive nature of alcohol and governments past effort to stop its distribution (prohibition), is it possible for the world to eliminate its most harmful drug?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/01/alcohol.harm/index.html