Arguments Against Prohibition Laws
Unfortunately for the customers at illegal bars, the quality of alcohol at these joints plummeted. The highest estimate put the average number of deaths a year to twelve thousand people (alcoholsolutionsandproblems.org). The lowest put the death toll at nearly one thousand (pbs.org). Many other consumers became afflicted with blindness (a reason speakeasies were called blind pigs and blind tigers), sickness, and paralysis (alcoholsolutionsandproblems.org). Some people who followed to Prohibition laws turned to other things, especially drugs. This led to more addicts and a rising demand for these substances. Many people who had formerly just had a beer or two now went to saloons to get drunk, because they never knew when their next drink would