Farrell S, Manning WG, Finch MD. Alcohol dependence and the price of alcoholic beverages. J Health Econ. 2003 Jan;22(1):117-47. Research suggesting that price affects consumption even amongst addicts runs across the addictions field (including tobacco)-and one study of state excise taxes found that higher alcohol taxes reduce death rates from cirrhosis (presumably occurring primarily amongst alcoholics) more than they reduce consumption in general: Cook, Phillip J and Tauchen, George, "The Effect of Liquor Taxes on Heavy Drinking," Bell Journal of Economics, Autumn 1982, 13, 379-90.