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The political target was an organized market and its public venues, not merely the beverage as an object.
Andersen argues that reformers framed the commercial liquor traffic—especially the producer, wholesaler, retailer, and saloon system—as the institutional source of alcohol-related harm and designed national prohibition around dismantling that traffic rather than policing every act of drinking.
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Myth 3 — The liquor traffic
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