From the Ken Burns PBS "Prohibition". I don't have a transcript of it, but here's a quote from PBS:
"The solution the United States had devised to address the problem of alcohol abuse had instead made the problem even worse. The statistics of the period are notoriously unreliable, but it is very clear that in many parts of the United States more people were drinking, and people were drinking more." http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/unintended-consequen...
Alcohol related deaths in the US are currently 2.75%. They were 3.2% in 1923.
From the Ken Burns PBS "Prohibition". I don't have a transcript of it, but here's a quote from PBS:
"The solution the United States had devised to address the problem of alcohol abuse had instead made the problem even worse. The statistics of the period are notoriously unreliable, but it is very clear that in many parts of the United States more people were drinking, and people were drinking more." http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/unintended-consequen...
Alcohol related deaths in the US are currently 2.75%. They were 3.2% in 1923.
https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-co...
http://www.census.gov/popclock/
Consumption did decline initially, but then rose steadily.
"Prohibition" by Eward Behr, pg. 148
More: http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-157.html