Prohibition was intended to improve, even to ennoble, the lives of all Americans, to protect individuals, families, and society at large from the devastating effects of alcohol abuse. But the ...

While alcohol consumption remains a public health concern, a nationwide prohibition is unlikely to happen again. At 12:01 a.m., Jan. 17, 1920, America was cut off. Saloons closed their doors.

Within a few years, the federal government extended Prohibition on alcohol to all states. The following year, in 1919, the Volstead Act set out the details of what Prohibition meant and the ...

Prohibition failed not because alcohol wasn’t harmful, but because it underestimated the cultural power of alcohol and the need for public buy-in. Where the temperance movement fell short, tobacco ...

Prohibition in the United States, which lasted from 1920 to 1933, banned the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. The movement was fueled by moral and religious objections, as ...