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Kosar describes medicinal prescriptions and licensed production as legal routes to whiskey during Prohibition, while enforcement difficulties fostered smuggling and criminal enterprise and the closure of breweries and distilleries reduced legitimate industry capacity.
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Prohibition: An American Folly
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