MEDICAL
By that
time people were started to realise that alcohol
damaged our health and could affect our lives. Many
American men suffered from Sclerosis, which is caused
by alcohol and lung cancer from smoking cigarettes.
Those people suffered badly and eventually died.
Because of this, many children fought their lives
without their fathers, which led to families’
financial problems.
ECONOMIC
Many labourers got
drunk and so they could not perform the job properly.
The absence from work each week was very high,
therefore the company was less efficient. The company
could not afford to produce the same products in the
time that they should and the industrialists were not
satisfied.
Other people also
insisted that buying beer meant that the money flew
away to Germany because all of the brewers were
actually located in Germany. The solution that people
came up was instead of helping Germany with her
economy that was to spend the large amount of money
on some other necessaries.
POLITICAL
Many votes were won in
rural areas because politicians promised to back up
prohibition, which helped those politicians to win
the election.
SOCIAL
The last point of all,
which we have agreed on the most important, was that
the husbands were spending their family’s saving
stupidly on alcohol instead of essential items, e.g.
Education. That problem led to family arguments,
which eventually led to divorce. The problem
pressurised women the most, therefore they set up the
anti-saloon groups.
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