Fair point - so taking the proportion of road deaths related to drink as the measure instead (which should control for your points to a great recent), 31% of US

Fair point - so taking the proportion of road deaths related to drink as the measure instead (which should control for your points to a great recent), 31% of US deaths are drink related, compared to 15.2% in the UK. (according to https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/358035/rrcgb2013-00.pdf https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...). Not the 10x difference, but still 2x.