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The table brings together data attributed to the Moderation League and the World League Against Alcoholism.
The chapter reproduces annual series for cirrhosis deaths per 100,000 people and arrests for drunkenness per 1,000 people from 1914 through 1935. Both proxy series fall sharply around the transition into national Prohibition and later rise, although neither measure is identical to total alcohol consumption.
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Myth 5 — Table: Rates of Death from Cirrhosis and Arrests for Drunkenness, 1914–1935
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