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Alcohol and Temperance in smooth historical past: a global Encyclopedia spans the background of alcohol creation and intake from the improvement of distilled spirits and smooth production and distribution the right way to the current. Authoritative and independent, it brings jointly the paintings of hundreds of thousands of specialists from a number of disciplines with an emphasis at the striking wealth of scholarship built long ago numerous decades.Its approximately 500 alphabetically prepared entries diversity past the vital alcoholic drinks and significant manufacturers and shops to discover attitudes towards alcohol in numerous nations and religions, conventional ingesting events and rituals, and pictures of ingesting and temperance in paintings, portray, literature, and drama. different entries describe foreign treaties and organisations regarding alcohol construction and distribution, international intake styles, and study and remedy associations, in addition to temperance, prohibition, and antiprohibitionist efforts world wide.
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Joseph E. Seagram buys a distillery in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, which under his leadership (and after 1928, that of the Bronfman family) will become a major national and international distiller. Reformers in Finland organize the Friends of Temperance. 1884 British physicians and moral reformers found the Society for the Study and Cure of Inebriety to study addiction and influence legislation. Changing its name after World War II to the Society for the Study of Addiction, it will last into the twenty-first century.
By 1903, the national Academy of Medicine had declared absinthe to be the most dangerous of all substances. Medical observation had linked absinthe consumption to a wide range of pathological conditions, including hallucinations, convulsions, and a violent type of insanity. Doctors and social scientists drew up catalogs of violent crimes and homicides apparently committed under the influence of absinthe. Absinthe was also linked to the supposed physical, intellectual, and moral decline of French workers in the decades before World War I.
Even so, in 1907, a government commission once again decided to raise the taxes on absinthe instead of banning it. This strategy could be portrayed as an attempt to deal with the problem without adopting the draconian measure of prohibition, while at the same time ensuring that the state benefited fiscally from the measure. In 1911, the French government commission adopted another way of avoiding prohibition. Having identified thujone as the dangerous substance in absinthe, it proposed banning any beverage in which thujone was an ingredient.
