Is a CAR more dangerous than ALCOHOL?

Alcohol (in India atleast) is considered to be quite bad. If you admit that you consume alcohol regularly you are sure to be looked down upon by most sections of society. One cannot advertise alcohol. People think that husbands waste money on alcohol instead of spending on family welfare.

I wonder if anyone has carried out any studies comparing number of broken marriages (or 'bad' marriages) where the main cause of failure is alcoholism with the total number of people who consume alcohol. Or even compared this with the total number of failed (or failing marriages).

Alcohol at the end of a long day is often the one thing that gets rid of the stress so that you can behave in a human like fashion.

While EXCESS of ANYTHING is bad, alcohol, if consumed in the right quantity, provides a release.

Many times it helps you to think clearly. To cut through the fog and concentrate on core issues.

Sometimes it prevents you from thinking TOO much.

So alcohol is not all bad.

If we ban alcohol from being advertised, maybe we should ban car advertisements as well!
After all I am sure cars kill more people than alcohol. More women are made widows and children orphaned because of rash driving. A drunk person is dangerous only to themselves. But a drunk person BEHIND the wheel of a CAR is a danger to anyone on the road.

All this and are not even getting into the pollution aspect of cars and how the global weather is changing!

So is a CAR more dangerous than ALCOHOL?

IF YES then why are you allowed to advertise cars and not alcohol.
Why is driving big cars not 'looked down upon' like consuming alcohol?
After all a big car can cause greater injury to a person, pollute the environment even more and consume more resources!

IF NO then someone needs to prove alcohol kills more people and causes greater harm than CARS.
Don't forget to send me a copy of the report!

Just because we need a car for our daily life we don't mind living with the heavy cost of life. Nobody says 'hey lets walk to the shops rather
In the end it just comes down to one simple fact: If I want something badly enough then who gives a damn about the cost!

This in turn highlights the attitude of convenience that we, as members of the human race, have adopted towards things around us.

It is convenient to ban alcohol ads since it might encourage people to drink, in any case how many people drink, but not automobile ads with all kinds of fancy stunts (which might encourage a kid to start driving and try those stunts, before reaching the legal age).