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Banning of Alcohol
Aspiration to ban alcohol is revised to try to help clean cities and eliminate poverty.The conservational efforts, for WWI, also pushed the momentum of the Temperance Movement. -
The Lever Act
The temperance movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries was an organized effort to encourage moderation in the consumption of intoxicating liquors or press for complete abstinence. The movement's ranks were mostly filled by women who, with their children, had endured the effects of unbridled drinking by many of their menfolk. In fact, alcohol was blamed for many of society's demerits, among them severe health problems, destitution and crime.This movement also inspired two ammendments. -
18th Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment stated that a year after its ratification, that all manufacturing, selling, alcoholic beverages, as well as transporting them inside and outside of the United States, and its territories was forbidden.Congress and the state government had the power to enforce the act with appropriate legislation.After the seventh year that the article has taken effect, unless the states wish to continue the act, it is no longer in effect. -
21st Amendment
"On December 6, 1932, Senator John Blaine of Wisconsin submitted a resolution to Congress proposing the submission to the states of the Twenty-First Amendment, which would annul the Eighteenth. Two months later, on February 21, 1933, the amendment was sent to the state governors. Meanwhile, the newly-elected President Roosevelt asked Congress to modify the Volstead Act to provide for the sale of 3.2 percent beer. the necessary thirty-sixth state ratified the amendment. -
U.S Public Health Service
The U.S. Public Health Service labels alcoholism the fourth-largest health problem. -
Grand Rapids
The Grand Rapids study shows that the risk of an automobile crash increases as more alcohol is consumed. -
Drinking Age
The minimum drinking age is lowered in 29 states from 21 to 18, 19 or 20 following the enactment of the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which lowers the legal voting age to 18. -
Alcoholism in the Eyes of the World Health Organization Commitee
World Health Organization committee discouraged the use of "alcoholism" in medicine, preferring the category of "alcohol dependence syndrome". Alcohol dependence in general was called dipsomania, but that term now has a much more specific meaning. People suffering from alcoholism are often called "alcoholics". Many other terms, some of them insulting or informal, have been used throughout history. The World Health Organization estimates that there are 140 million people with alcoholism worldwide -
Drunk Driving
Mothers Against Drunk Driving is established with the goal of reducing alcohol-related highway fatalities. -
BAC
A new federal law requires states to pass legislation making it a crime to drive with blood alcohol concentration (BAC) at or above .08 percent.
