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You tax alcohol for consumption but not for cleaning products, like rubbing alcohol.

Now you need to figure out a way to stop people from consuming cleaning products.



All the rubbing alcohol around here is isopropyl alcohol, not ethanol.


Rubbing alcohol is often isopropyl alcohol instead of ethanol, which makes it even more toxic.


More toxic than what? I assumed you meant than methanol (which is added to ethanol-based cleaning products in the Netherlands), but then I read this on the Wikipedia page for isopropyl alcohol:

>Isopropyl alcohol, via its metabolites, is somewhat more toxic than ethanol, but considerably less toxic than ethylene glycol or methanol.

(Can't link link to the page due to mysterious iOS bug...)


Than ethanol (or denaturated ethanol).


"Even more toxic" is not usually the preferred phrasing for comparing with ethanol; it implies you're comparing with something that's already quite toxic, and ethanol, while indeed toxic, is not normally considered quite toxic enough that we don't need to go out of our way to stop people from drinking it.


I don’t know what you’re going off about. It made sense to me.


Or lower alcohol tax


Or don't do prohibition, or half ass prohibition with tax.


Age limits for selling also don't apply to denatured alcohol.




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