Temperance+-+Ian,+Freddy,+and+Peter

= **Policy Briefing:** **By Temperance Task Force** = =**Drinking – Society’s Evils** = The consumption of alcoholic beverages has not been viewed as positive since at least the 1930s. Women, in particular, recognized alcohol as a threat to their families as drinking was a frequent cause of violence and added to economic hardships within the home. There was a strong link between alcohol and wife beating and child abuse. The impact of drinking on labor productivity was considerable as well. As the United States grew in population and cities swelled with impoverished people, the use of alcohol was often associated with such social ills as poverty and insanity, rendering alcohol the root of society’s evils.

Medical Issues Influenced by Doctor Benjamin Rush, people began to realize that alcohol is detrimental to their health and could even cost them their lives. A disease known as sclerosis, caused by alcohol and smoking cigarettes, was flourishing in America and those with it suffered and eventually died. The death of such ‘drunken’ fathers also meant the collapse of many households. Without sustainable income from fathers, the financial situation within each household deteriorated and children had to suffer more than ever.

Economic Issues ===Consumption of alcohol led to decreasing productivity of employees. A majority of employees often got drunk, not performing their jobs properly. Their unreported absence rates were high, and with such inefficient workforce, companies no longer produced the same quantity of products in the given time. Both industrialists and consumers were extremely dissatisfied. ===

Social Issues Many internal family conflicts, divorce in some serious cases, occurred as a result of alcohols. Husbands spent their money and savings unwisely on alcohol instead of on necessary items. Important investment on education, for example, was not prioritized as most money were put aside for consuming alcohol. Particularly, women in general were most irritated by the social problems regarding to alcohols

//The Drunkards Progress. From the first glass to the grave.// //Nathaniel Currier, 1846//

  //Step 1. A glass with a friend.// //Step 2. A glass to keep the cold out.// //Step 3. A glass too much.// //Step 4. Drunk and riotous.// //Step 5. The summit attained. Jolly companions. A confirmed drunkard.// //Step 6. Poverty and disease.// //Step 7. Forsaken by Friends.// //Step 8. Desperation and crime.// //Step 9. Death by suicide.// 

 **Complete Prohibition and Its Potential Repercussions** Although many pro-temperance leaders often insist that total prohibition of the consumption and production of alcohol in the United States would be the best possible solution of eradicating the problems listed above, evidence speaks otherwise: The complete prohibition of alcohol might only lead to bootlegging, smuggling and illegally distributing alcoholic beverages around the US.

Bootleggers <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Prohibition of alcohol in the United States would create an uprising of so-called “bootleggers”, people who make their own alcoholic beverages. These bootleggers would create their own beverages either for their own consumption or for profit from other consumers. Bootleggers would give open access to alcohol (thus defeating the purposes of the 18th Amendment) and create much larger problems than those to be eradicated by the 18th Amendment.

<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Rumrunners <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Rumrunners are people who would import and smuggle liquor from Mexico and Canada. These smugglers would make alcoholic beverages almost readily accessible despite the laws that would prohibit these drinks. Along with bootleggers, rumrunners would create many more problems than the temperance leaders had intended and lead to the development of much corruption in America.

<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Speakeasies <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Speakeasies are essentially underground bars or “saloons” that would illegally distribute alcohol. Bartenders might ask their customers to remain quiet and “speak easy” while they are ordering, hence, the name. Most of these speakeasies are often run by members of criminal organizations, most notably Al Capone’s organization dubbed “the mob”.

<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The Mob <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The prohibition of alcohol would create a problem that was more confounding than the issues it was originally trying to abolish: the formation of large criminal organizations such as the mob. Al Capone of Chicago and his partners in crime, for example, already created a massive organization that smuggled and distributed alcohol around the United States. The mob will soon take over distribution of liquor around the country, leading to increased violence and chaos within the country.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> **We need to realize** that banning alcohol will create a plethora of unintended consequences even if it does eradicate the issues caused by alcohol consumption. In finding a proper solution we cannot leeway to one side but must find a middle ground in which the consequences are least dire. What we need to achieve with our solution is not to create new confounding obstacles but also to deal with the given problem at hand. We must realize that we are not necessarily fighting alcohol itself but rather its consequences it brings. It is rather pointless to attack the substance itself without treating the American people, like giving a cure without the remedy.

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<span style="color: #17375d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Our Solutions**

<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Solution No.1. The T (Temperance) - Days**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">What would matter most when it comes to prohibition act would be its practicality and applicability to the real world. First and foremost, we should acknowledge that alcohol is a highly addictive form of drug that can affect the everyday lives of many people, as shown in section 1. Therefore, our group presents the T (Temperance)-Days plan: Alcohol would only be served in Tuesdays and Thursdays to the general public. If we were to abolish the whole alcoholic business in America, a whole large economic sector of the country would be destroyed. If we completely abolish alcohols, other crimes would also rise as a result.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Therefore, our group's solution to this problem was one that involved the //gradual// banning of alcohol.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">By only serving alcohols in Tuesdays and Thursdays, people would be less addicted to alcohol. This is similar to the way drug facilities in the US work - by serving less amount of alcohol every time, addicts become less associated with the drug. In this case, we would decrease the day we serve alcohol to only Thursdays, if positive results are followed. We believe that this T-days solution would address medical, economic and social issues.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">First, decreased drinking consumption would definitely improve the health of the general public. This would stop the rise of sclerosis and would help decrease many of the crime associated with alcohol like recklessness behavior after people are drunk. Furthermore, given that alcohol consumption is negatively correlated with people’s productivity, the implementation of T-Days plan would enable people to work effectively in more weekdays. People would not be associated with alcohol after the gradual decrease of consumption of alcohol and would less rely on it. So, when we ban alcohol in one more day of the week, people wouldn't be so surprised, shocked, and discontented about such change. Lastly, if this plan were to be passed, it would solve the social problems existing in society. Marriage would be a more happy and pleasing relationship. The family would be reunited and jovial because the father would return home from work most of the days. They would spend more time with the family after they don't rely on alcohol.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">It is, of course, impossible to solve all the problems about alcohol in society. However, our plan, which implements a gradual decrease of alcohol over a long period of time, would be an effective and PRACTICAL solution to the problem in society. It tackles the medical, economic, and social problems that alcohol consumption brings and it should be passed.

<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Solution No.2. The Temperate House**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The assimilation of the alcohol-addicted people to the society is another key problem we ought to address. Therefore, we have to be able to deal with the already intoxicated people in society. We present a system where places like the settlement houses would be used to re-educate and assimilate the addicts back to society. Instead of calling it the settlement houses, it would be called the temperate houses. Naming the places is a crucial step to fixing the problem as it shapes the image and way people think about alcohol. By making the public aware that alcohol is a form of poison, people would be less inclined to consume alcohol.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">In the Temperate Houses, we are going to re-educate the intoxicated about society and family relationships. We are not going to directly tackle the economic problems, but by making the people not associated with alcohol, they would perform better in society after they graduate from the temperate houses. But through education the addicts about relationship in the family and the medical symptoms of alcohols, they would be able to contribute more to the family and would be healthier.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The temperate houses can forcefully take the addicts to the facility if all of their family members agree to the involuntary settlement of the intoxicated people into the Temperate Houses. For the betterment of the addicts and society, we present the temperate the toxicants project through building more Temperate Houses.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Works Cited <span style="color: #053df5; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">__[]__ <span style="color: #053df5; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">__[]__ <span style="color: #053df5; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">__[]__ <span style="color: #053df5; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">__[]__ <span style="color: #053df5; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">__[]__ <span style="color: #053df5; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">__[]__ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">[|http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/progress/prohib/prohib] <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; position: absolute; top: -25px; width: 1px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> **Policy Briefing**
 * By Temperance Task Force**

<span style="color: #17375d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> **Drinking – Society’s Evils**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> The consumption of alcoholic beverages has not been viewed as positive since at least the 1930s. Women, in particular, recognized alcohol as a threat to their families as drinking was a frequent cause of violence and added to economic hardships within the home. There was a strong link between alcohol and wife beating and child abuse. The impact of drinking on labor productivity was considerable as well. As the United States grew in population and cities swelled with impoverished people, the use of alcohol was often associated with such social ills as poverty and insanity, rendering alcohol the root of society’s evils.

<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> Medical Issues <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> Influenced by Doctor Benjamin Rush, people began to realize that alcohol is detrimental to their health and could even cost them their lives. A disease known as sclerosis, caused by alcohol and smoking cigarettes, was flourishing in America and those with it suffered and eventually died. The death of such ‘drunken’ fathers also meant the collapse of many households. Without sustainable income from fathers, the financial situation within each household deteriorated and children had to suffer more than ever.

Economic Issues Consumption of alcohol led to decreasing productivity of employees. A majority of employees often got drunk, not performing their jobs properly. Their unreported absence rates were high, and with such inefficient workforce, companies no longer produced the same quantity of products in the given time. Both industrialists and consumers were extremely dissatisfied.

Social Issues <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> Many internal family conflicts, divorce in some serious cases, occurred as a result of alcohols. Husbands spent their money and savings unwisely on alcohol instead of on necessary items. Important investment on education, for example, was not prioritized as most money were put aside for consuming alcohol. Particularly, women in general were most irritated by the social problems regarding to alcohols

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 10.5px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> //The Drunkards Progress. From the first glass to the grave.// //Nathaniel Currier, 1846// // Step 1. A glass with a friend. Step 2. A glass to keep the cold out. Step 3. A glass too much. Step 4. Drunk and riotous. Step 5. The summit attained. Jolly companions. A confirmed drunkard. Step 6. Poverty and disease. Step 7. Forsaken by Friends. Step 8. Desperation and crime. Step 9. Death by suicide.

<span style="color: #17375d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> **Complete Prohibition and Its Potential Repercussions**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Although many pro-temperance leaders often insist that total prohibition of the consumption and production of alcohol in the United States would be the best possible solution of eradicating the problems listed above, evidence speaks otherwise: The complete prohibition of alcohol might only lead to bootlegging, smuggling and illegally distributing alcoholic beverages around the US.

<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> Bootleggers <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> Prohibition of alcohol in the United States would create an uprising of so-called “bootleggers”, people who make their own alcoholic beverages. These bootleggers would create their own beverages either for their own consumption or for profit from other consumers. Bootleggers would give open access to alcohol (thus defeating the purposes of the 18th Amendment) and create much larger problems than those to be eradicated by the 18th Amendment.

<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> Rumrunners <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> Rumrunners are people who would import and smuggle liquor from Mexico and Canada. These smugglers would make alcoholic beverages almost readily accessible despite the laws that would prohibit these drinks. Along with bootleggers, rumrunners would create many more problems than the temperance leaders had intended and lead to the development of much corruption in America.

<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> Speakeasies <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> Speakeasies are essentially underground bars or “saloons” that would illegally distribute alcohol. Bartenders might ask their customers to remain quiet and “speak easy” while they are ordering, hence, the name. Most of these speakeasies are often run by members of criminal organizations, most notably Al Capone’s organization dubbed “the mob”.

<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> The Mob <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> The prohibition of alcohol would create a problem that was more confounding than the issues it was originally trying to abolish: the formation of large criminal organizations such as the mob. Al Capone of Chicago and his partners in crime, for example, already created a massive organization that smuggled and distributed alcohol around the United States. The mob will soon take over distribution of liquor around the country, leading to increased violence and chaos within the country.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> **We need to realize** that banning alcohol will create a plethora of unintended consequences even if it does eradicate the issues caused by alcohol consumption. In finding a proper solution we cannot leeway to one side but must find a middle ground in which the consequences are least dire. What we need to achieve with our solution is not to create new confounding obstacles but also to deal with the given problem at hand. We must realize that we are not necessarily fighting alcohol itself but rather its consequences it brings. It is rather pointless to attack the substance itself without treating the American people, like giving a cure without the remedy.

<span style="color: #17375d; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> **Our Solutions**

<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> **Solution No.1. The T (Temperance) - Days**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> What would matter most when it comes to prohibition act would be its practicality and applicability to the real world. First and foremost, we should acknowledge that alcohol is a highly addictive form of drug that can affect the everyday lives of many people, as shown in section 1. Therefore, our group presents the T (Temperance)-Days plan: Alcohol would only be served in Tuesdays and Thursdays to the general public. If we were to abolish the whole alcoholic business in America, a whole large economic sector of the country would be destroyed. If we completely abolish alcohols, other crimes would also rise as a result.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> Therefore, our group's solution to this problem was one that involved the gradual// banning of alcohol.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> By only serving alcohols in Tuesdays and Thursdays, people would be less addicted to alcohol. This is similar to the way drug facilities in the US work - by serving less amount of alcohol every time, addicts become less associated with the drug. In this case, we would decrease the day we serve alcohol to only Thursdays, if positive results are followed. We believe that this T-days solution would address medical, economic and social issues.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> First, decreased drinking consumption would definitely improve the health of the general public. This would stop the rise of sclerosis and would help decrease many of the crime associated with alcohol like recklessness behavior after people are drunk. Furthermore, given that alcohol consumption is negatively correlated with people’s productivity, the implementation of T-Days plan would enable people to work effectively in more weekdays. People would not be associated with alcohol after the gradual decrease of consumption of alcohol and would less rely on it. So, when we ban alcohol in one more day of the week, people wouldn't be so surprised, shocked, and discontented about such change. Lastly, if this plan were to be passed, it would solve the social problems existing in society. Marriage would be a more happy and pleasing relationship. The family would be reunited and jovial because the father would return home from work most of the days. They would spend more time with the family after they don't rely on alcohol.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> It is, of course, impossible to solve all the problems about alcohol in society. However, our plan, which implements a gradual decrease of alcohol over a long period of time, would be an effective and PRACTICAL solution to the problem in society. It tackles the medical, economic, and social problems that alcohol consumption brings and it should be passed.

<span style="color: #31849b; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> **Solution No.2. The Temperate House**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> The assimilation of the alcohol-addicted people to the society is another key problem we ought to address. Therefore, we have to be able to deal with the already intoxicated people in society. We present a system where places like the settlement houses would be used to re-educate and assimilate the addicts back to society. Instead of calling it the settlement houses, it would be called the temperate houses. Naming the places is a crucial step to fixing the problem as it shapes the image and way people think about alcohol. By making the public aware that alcohol is a form of poison, people would be less inclined to consume alcohol.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> In the Temperate Houses, we are going to re-educate the intoxicated about society and family relationships. We are not going to directly tackle the economic problems, but by making the people not associated with alcohol, they would perform better in society after they graduate from the temperate houses. But through education the addicts about relationship in the family and the medical symptoms of alcohols, they would be able to contribute more to the family and would be healthier.

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