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The disadvantages: Banning liquor failed to end drinking, and instead created a booming criminal subculture in which enterprising outlaws were able to make millions by selling illegal liquor. It also made criminals of ordinary, harmless human beings.

The advantages: Prohibition managed to reduce drinking in America by about 30%. And the temperance movement that started a half century before helped educate people about some of the dangers of excessive drinking.

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