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[单项选择]Do we need laws that prevent us from running risks with our lives If so, then perhaps laws are needed prohibiting (禁止) the sale of cigarettes and alcoholic drinks. Both products have been known to kill people. The hazards of drinking too much alcohol are as bad or worse than the hazards of smoking too many cigarettes. All right then, let’s pass a law dosing the liquor stores and the bars in this country. Let’s put an end once and for all to the disease from which as many as 10 million Americans currently suffer -- alcoholism(酗酒)。
But wait. We’ve already tried that. For 13 years, between 1920 and 1933, there were no liquor stores anywhere in the United States. They were shut down -- abolished by an amendment (修正案), the Volstead Act. After January 20, 1920, there was supposed to be no more manufacturing, selling, or transporting of "intoxication liquors." Without any more liquor, people could not drink it. And if they did not drink it, how could they get drunk There would be no
A. without liquor, people would not drink
B. there would be no further danger to the public from alcoholism
C. there would be a rise in the cost of alcoholic beverages
D. people would not become drunk or create a public nuisance