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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 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 closing the liquor stores and the bars in this country. Let’’s put an end once and for all to the ruinous disease from which as many as 10 million Americans currently suffer — alcoholism.
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) to the Constitution (to 18th) and by a law of Congress (the Volstead Act). After January 20, 1920, there was supposed to be no more manufacturing, selling, or transporting of " intoxicating (醉人,使中毒) liquors." Without any more liquor, people could not drink it. And i
A. There would be no further danger to the public from alcoholism.
B. People would not become drunk or create a public nuisance.
C. There would be a rise in the cost of alcoholic beverages.
D. Without liquor, people would not drink.