Menerva Lindsen
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The prohibition of alcohol in the 1920's and 30's in the United States is one of most famous, or infamous, times in recent American history. The intention was to reduce the consumption of alcohol by eliminating businesses that manufactured, distributed and sold it. Considered by many as a failed social and political experiment, the era changed the way many Americans view alcoholic beverages, enhancing the realization that federal government control cannot always take the place of personal responsibility.
We associate the era with gangsters, bootleggers, speakeasies, rum-runners and an overall chaotic situation in respect to the social network of Americans. The period began in 1920 with general acceptance by the public and ended in 1933 as the result of the public's annoyance of the law and the ever-increasing enforcement nightmare.
We really know how many does the Government profit from the alchohol selling.
But...
The following statistics on alcoholics might surprise you. Some of them surprised us.
It is an alcoholism fact that:
We associate the era with gangsters, bootleggers, speakeasies, rum-runners and an overall chaotic situation in respect to the social network of Americans. The period began in 1920 with general acceptance by the public and ended in 1933 as the result of the public's annoyance of the law and the ever-increasing enforcement nightmare.
We really know how many does the Government profit from the alchohol selling.
But...
The following statistics on alcoholics might surprise you. Some of them surprised us.
It is an alcoholism fact that:
- Alcohol is the number one drug problem in America.
- There are more than 12 million alcoholics in the U.S.
- Three-fourths of all adults drink alcohol, and 6% of them are alcoholics.
- Americans spend $197 million each day on alcohol.
- In the United States, a person is killed in an alcohol-related car accident every 30 minutes.
- A 2000 study found nearly 7 million persons age 12 to 20 were binge drinkers.
- Three-fourths of all high school seniors report being drunk at least once.
- Adolescents who begin drinking before the age of 15 are four times more likely to become alcoholics than their counterparts who do not begin drinking until the age of 21.
- People with a higher education are more likely to drink.
- Higher income people are more likely to drink.
These statistics on alcoholics may surprise you. The alcoholism fact about how many alcoholics there are in the U.S. may come as a particular surprise. Alcoholism is much more prevalent than many people suspect.
So what do you think about "prohibition"?