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Alcohol should carry warning label for cancer risk, US surgeon general says (www.theguardian.com)

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[+] [email protected] -16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Alcoholism is a deadly disease. We should really look back on prohibition and consider that maybe we've swung too far in the other direction in our encouragement and acceptance of it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Prohibition is not the way to go. Education is a much better alternative

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Careful, the Prohibition Era wasn't sunshine and rainbows.

"On balance, Prohibition probably reduced per capita alcohol use and alcohol-related harm, but these benefits eroded over time as an organized black market developed and public support for [national prohibition] declined."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States#Effects

National alcohol prohibition in the United States between 1920 and 1933 is believed widely to have been a misguided and failed social experiment that made alcohol problems worse by encouraging drinkers to switch to spirits and created a large black market for alcohol supplied by organized crime.

Hall, W. (2010), What are the policy lessons of National Alcohol Prohibition in the United States, 1920–1933?. Addiction, 105: 1164-1173. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.02926.x