The Pros And Cons Of Liquor

The Dark Truth Reeks With Liquor In the 1920’s liquor was a huge deal, many people used it as their excuse for everything. Liquor was so popular that it was even used as money in certain areas. It didn’t matter if you were rich, poor, or even a slave, you had liquor available to you. Parents put whiskey in the baby bottles and used it as a pacifier when they would start teething. “By 1763 rum was pouring out of 159 commercial distilleries in New England alone, by the 1820’s liquor was so plentiful and so freely available, it was less expensive than tea” (Okrent 7). As liquor prices continued to drop more people would miss work on Monday’s after a “hard” weekend of partying which mostly just consisted of alcohol. Liquor began to seem uncontrollable and reckless making people, more women than men, want to ban liquor all together thinking it would help things at home and work more suitable for everyone involved. Prohibition caused higher crimes to be committed and a lot of illegal …show more content…
It became so popular that the dry era that people were used to was disappearing quickly. If you were caught transporting any type of liquor they were legally able to impound your car and even planes.Most Americans believed that drinking wine and beer were allowed and wasn't breaking the law at all by drinking them. Quite a few women and men were entering the age where they had never entered a bar or even had a drink in their early twenties. Growing up in this time period they were being told that any type of alcoholic beverage was wrong and if you did you were going against god and everything you believed in, which scared most of the people who had no clue how much they used to drink before prohibition was passed (Magill 800 and 801). They were all so informed of the eleven illnesses that came from liquor and even though many knew of the illnesses they didn’t seem to mind (Behr