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[–] thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 points 1 year ago

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