Neoprohibitionists seek to halt consumption.

• Position: Alcoholism

It has been 70 years since the end of Prohibition, the disastrous attempt to purge alcohol from American life that resulted in a booming black market, increased crime and alcohol abuse, wasted tax dollars, and lost civil liberties. While some assume that such a misguided experiment never would be tried again, so called "neoprohibitionists" are attempting to limit alcohol consumption through various indirect means, cautions FoxNews.com columnist Radley Balko.

"There's a new anti-alcohol fervor afoot," he writes in "Back Door to Prohibition: The New War on Social Drinking." These measures include higher taxes, restrictive zoning regulations, selected bans on advertising, and excessively stringent drinking and driving laws. "Those policy prescriptions succinctly summarize the goals of the neoprohibitionists: control the environment of alcohol and alcolholism and shift the focus away from alcohol abusers themselves."

Public campaigns against drunk driving have succeeded in reducing alcohol related traffic deaths by 40% since 1982. Today, groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving push for ever more stringent laws, beyond the point where they would deter truly inhibited drivers, Balko argues. "'Drunks' have been replaced by 'drinkers,' 'drunk driving' by 'drinking and driving.' It's a subtle change, but a significant one," Balko says of the language used by anti-alcohol activists.

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