Reply #115: Evidently Europe has plenty of alcohol-related problems.

[Fridays Child]

Here are a couple of links that took me about 30 seconds to find:
http://www.euro.who.int/mediacentre/PressBackgrounders/2001/20011001_2?PrinterFriendly=1&
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A35079-2004Dec29?language=printer

And Prohibition never had a chance because because criminalizing alcohol consumption was only part of the equation. We were (and are) a drinking culture and that couldn't be changed in a mere in twelve years. Look at how slowly attitudes about smoking have changed—and that's been with concerted and sustained efforts, at multiple levels.