Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Frankfurt (Main), language: English, abstract: Prohibition was satisfying three tremendous popular passions: the passion of the Prohibitionists for law, the passion of the drinking classes for drink and the passion of the largest and best-organized smuggling trade that has ever existed for money. The remedy was worse than the disease. Intolerance led to indulgence.