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MH 338.1
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Every year millions upon millions of gallons of intoxicating liquors are consumed. Millions upon millions of dollars are spent in buying wretchedness, poverty, disease, degradation, lust, crime, and death. For the sake of gain, the liquor seller deals out to his victims that which corrupts and destroys mind and body. He entails on the drunkard's family poverty and wretchedness.
The alcohol trade generates vast societal and individual harms, including poverty, disease, crime, and death. Contains strong empirical assertions regarding the societal and health consequences of consuming intoxicating liquors alongside moral critique.
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C20290 · The consumption of intoxicating liquors leads to poverty, disease, degradation, crime, and death.
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C20291 · The liquor seller's actions corrupt and destroy the mind and body of the consumer.
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MH 338.2
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When his victim is dead, the rum seller's exactions do not cease. He robs the widow and brings children to beggary. He does not hesitate to take the very necessaries of life from the destitute family, to pay the drink bill of the husband and father. The cries of the suffering children, the tears of the agonized mother, serve only to exasperate him. What is it to him if these suffering ones starve? What is it to him if they, too, are driven to degradation and ruin? He grows rich on the pittances of those whom he is leading to perdition.
The economic exploitation of vulnerable families by alcohol sellers causes severe domestic deprivation and emotional trauma. Focuses on the ethical and social wrongs committed against families by the liquor trade rather than presenting a standalone empirical research hypothesis.
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MH 338.3
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Houses of prostitution, dens of vice, criminal courts, prisons, almshouses, insane asylums, hospitals, all are, to a great degree, filled as a result of the liquor seller's work. Like the mystic Babylon of the Apocalypse, he is dealing in “slaves, and souls of men.” Behind the liquor seller stands the mighty destroyer of souls, and every art which earth or hell can devise is employed to draw human beings under his power. In the city and the country, on the railway trains, on the great steamers, in places of business, in the halls of pleasure, in the medical dispensary, even in the church, on the sacred Communion table, his traps are set. Nothing is left undone to create and to foster the desire for intoxicants. On almost every corner stands the public house, with its brilliant lights, its welcome and good cheer, inviting the working man, the wealthy idler, and the unsuspecting youth.
The liquor trade heavily populates penal, medical, and charitable institutions, supported by pervasive marketing and social availability. Makes empirical claims about institutional occupancy rates resulting from alcohol and describes the pervasive availability of alcohol.
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C20310 · Criminal courts, prisons, insane asylums, and hospitals are filled to a great degree as a result of the liquor trade.
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MH 338.4
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In private lunchrooms and fashionable resorts, ladies are supplied with popular drinks, under some pleasing name, that are really intoxicants. For the sick and the exhausted, there are the widely advertised bitters, consisting largely of alcohol.
Alcohol is covertly marketed to various populations through disguised drinks and widely advertised medicinal bitters. Asserts an empirical claim regarding the composition of commercial products marketed to the public.
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C20320 · Widely advertised bitters for the sick and exhausted consist largely of alcohol.
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