Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Drink in 1914-1922: A Lesson in Control
The war affected the production and consumption of alcoholic liquors in every country by the withdrawal of materials for manufacture in order to make good the deficiency of food, by interference with transport, and by increase of prices. These changes caused a general, though unequal, diminution of production and consumption. The civilian population was further affected in belligerent countries by the withdrawal of varying quantities from ordinary consumption for the use of the armies. But in addition to these general effects of the war, specific measures of interference were enacted by Govern ment in certain countries. In France the manufacture and sale of absinthe were prohibited, and Spirits in general were excluded from the war zone, with an exception in favour of home-distillation from fruits; in Russia the manufacture of vodka, which was a Government monopoly, was stopped in Sweden the serving of spirits for consumption on the premises was allowed only with meals above a certain price, and the sale for off consumption was rationed; in Great Britain a system Of control was instituted which placed the trade in all its branches on a wholly different legal footing, changed its practice in many important respects, and intro duced far-reaching experiments. In this procedure Great Britain stood quite alone. Prohibition, adopted in Norway in 1916, was rather the culmination Of a long-standing cam paign than a war measure and the same may be said of its adoption during the war in the Canadian provinces and N ew foundland. The war no doubt stimulated a movement already in progress, as it did in the United States, where national prohibition came into force in 1919 but the action in Great Britain was quite new and totally different.
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