People respond to incentives, why wouldn't they respond to taxes on alcohol? "Public policies affecting the price of alcoholic beverages have significant effec

People respond to incentives, why wouldn't they respond to taxes on alcohol? "Public policies affecting the price of alcoholic beverages have significant effects on alcohol-related disease and injury rates. Our results suggest that doubling the alcohol tax would reduce alcohol-related mortality by an average of 35%, traffic crash deaths by 11%, sexually transmitted disease by 6%, violence by 2%, and crime by 1.4%." From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2951962/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2951962/