... I found some notes I had taken from way back when doing my History GCSE (more than a decade ago now), and found something I had noted down from a textbook - probably an advertisement from the time of prohibition in the United States:
'Ordinary law abiding citizens began to break the law by drinking:
" 'Come in and take a drop?' The first drop led to other drops. He dropped his position, he dropped his respectability, he dropped his fortune, he dropped his friends, he dropped finally all his prospects in this life, and his hopes for eternity; and then came the last drop on the gallows. BEWARE OF THE FIRST DROP."
Unfortunately, I don't know which textbook my teenage self noted this down from, or what the original source was, but an interesting take on the impact of alcohol, from early in the 20th century.
No comments:
Post a Comment