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...early part of the current decade, alcohol officials had noticed the numbers on binge-drinking, and they embarked on a new kind of prohibitionist strategy to discourage it: the "social host" law, the most sweeping change in American alcohol-enforcement since Prohibition. Social-host laws make residents over 21 responsible for any underage drinking that occurs at their home. The laws vary, but those who break them can be fined, forced to pay for police costs that result from underage drinking or even jailed. Twenty-four states and more than 100 local jurisdictions have passed such laws, the majority...
...Francisco The decoy sign outside speakeasy-themed Bourbon & Branch advertises the ANTI-LEAGUE SALOON, the prohibitionist group founded 113 years before the bar opened. Reservations for tables (and the daily password to whisper into the tiny loudspeaker) are available to all via the bar's website bourbonandbranch.com but remain hard to come by for much of the week. To meet demand, the venue expanded into a third room for standing patrons, accessed via another secret door behind a bookshelf. Despite the excitement in the bar, no loud celebrating is permitted in the seated section, with those patrons...
...prohibitionist vigilantes argue that non-smokers need to be protected from noxious fumes. Restaurant patrons, they cry, have a “right” to eat in a smoke-free environment, and bar workers should never be “forced” to work in a smoky haze. And these hypocrite liberal lecteurs know the solution: a totalitarian-minded ban on smoking in public places...
...seemed surprising: booze. Travia, director of Harvard’s Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services, staged a question and answer session on drinking in the Leverett Senior Common Room last night, underlining his frank and pragmatic approach to undergraduate alcohol use. “We are not prohibitionist by any stretch of the imagination,” said Travia, as he engaged a dozen students in a discussion about drinking, its health effects, and Harvard’s alcohol policies. “Telling people not to drink is not something I like to do because I think...
...awkward arsenal, perhaps, but Travia’s no militant prohibitionist. After his experience at Dartmouth, he has no illusions about undergraduate alcohol consumption, and he doesn’t expect to steer students down a road of abstinence. Information would be his weapon of choice, and in the months since his installment, he has been aggressively spreading his neon-colored freebies around campus like a marketing maven...