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AJPH First Look, published online ahead of print Dec 27, 2005
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Did Prohibition Really Work? Alcohol Prohibition as a Public Health Innovation

Jack S. Blocker, Jr, PhD

The author is with the Department of History, Huron University College, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.


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  		Bone Dry Forever! This sign on a St Louis street at Prohibition’s onset illustrates the widely held belief that the liquor ban would be permanent.

Source. Missouri Historical Society, image SNDC 7-08-0022.

 

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  		Seized distilling equipment early in the Prohibition Era reflects the artisanal scale to which the production of beverage alcohol was reduced.

Source. Chicago Historical Society, image DN-0072348.

 

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  		The Federal Prohibition Bureau, led by Roy Haines (left), was chronically underfunded by Congress and harrassed by officials of the Anti-Saloon League, such as O. G. Christgau (right).

Source. Chicago Historical Society, image DN-0079835.

 

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  		Prohibition fostered increasing consumption of nonalcoholic beverages, such as fruit juices and carbonated drinks, the latter symbolized by this A&W Root Beer stand in Madison, Wisc, in 1931.

Source. Wisconsin Historical Society, Image 18489.

 




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