• thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 year ago

    Alcohol consumption was like 800% higher before prohibition happened. It seems silly today, but alcohol abuse was a super rampant issue in the early 1900s.

    • PostmodernPythia@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      And yet we drank more during actual Prohibition than before. I wonder if other things happened in that time period… /s