Mark Lawrence Schrad, "Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Are There Positive Am Benefits of Alcohol?
M, it sets out to sort of, am, to bust a lot of myths about prohibitions, history and em. Am, throughout the book, results in some very kind of quotable passages. M, you say things that you write, things like, temperance and anti imperialism go hand in glove. Vodka became synonymous with russian culture, not because the russian people demanded it, but because the state suppliedi. Nd, so that was kind of a shift, the shift from one argument to another. And i think we've been focusing on the wrong thing here,. We've been focusing more on the process making money off alcohol rather than the person who is getting addicted
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