What Is the Percantage of People That Did Not Drink Alcohol During the Prohibtion?
Question by Bryan: What is the percantage of people that did not drink alcohol during the prohibtion?
What was the percentage of people who did not drink alcohol during the prohibition. I know overalll consumption and deaths went up, but what about the percentage of people who would not drink it because it was illegal.
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Answer by Daryl T
After prohibition was implemented alcohol continued to be consumed. However, how much compared to pre-Prohibition levels remains unclear. Studies examining the rates of cirrhosis deaths as a proxy for alcohol consumption estimated a decrease in consumption of 10-20%.[4][5][6] One study reviewing city-level drunkenness arrests came to a similar result.[7] And, yet another study examining “mortality, mental health and crime statistics” found that alcohol consumption fell, at first, to approximately 30 percent of its pre-Prohibition level; but, over the next several years, increased to about 60-70 percent of its pre-prohibition level
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