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The prohibition of alcohol in the USA was a notorious fiasco. The War on Drugs has been a deadly failure. Bans on alternative nicotine products keep people smoking cigarettes. Attempts to suppress legal highs result in more drugs hitting the market. Prohibition doesn't work but the world is filled with prohibitionists. Why? Christopher Snowdon's new history of prohibitions is a panoramic study of how bans begin, who instigates them and why they fail. It is a story of moral panics, vested interests and popular hysteria, driven by people who believe that utopia is only ever one ban away. Includes: The campaign for alcohol prohibition in the USA The worldwide ban on opium and the dawn of the War on Drugs The curious case of the European Union's ban on oral tobacco (snus) The 1920s crusade to suppress drinking worldwide The prohibition of Ecstasy and the rise of designer drugs The enduring appeal of prohibitionist policies today "The new Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary Prohibition is a five-and-a-half-hour missed opportunity to demonstrate why bans on substances are doomed from the start. Fortunately, for those who want to understand the irresistible lure of all types of prohibit

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Author

Snowdon, Christopher

Publisher

Little Dice

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780956226532

Category

history

Subjects

Social Science, Fiction, World History

Rating

4.11 / 5 (16 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14