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Legislatures in Wisconsin and South Carolina are considering making an exception for military personnel, and South Dakota is mulling a measure to allow 19-year-olds to buy low-alcohol beer.
ECONOMIST: Is it time to lower America's drinking age?
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And Natasha Cazin, Euromonitor's global beer analyst, expects new beer categories to develop, such as for low- and no-alcohol beer, which alone could grow by 45% within five years.
ECONOMIST: SABMiller buys South America's second-biggest brewer
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Lost in the celebration of those halcyon Charleston days is that the era spanning 1920 (when the 18th Amendment became law) to 1934 (when the amendment was repealed) was marked by raging culture wars, rampant xenophobia, political upheaval, and threats of death or worse that came more often via poisonous industrial-strength alcohol masquerading as low-grade liquor than the rat-a-tat-tat of a Tommy gun.
FORBES: Booked Review: Another Round for Prohibition
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Mr. Theofilatos is making six basic flavors with low alcohol contents and currently has one high-alcohol flavor, Mava Roka, which has an alcoholic content of about 7 %.
WSJ: High Tea Has a New Meaning
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The defense also called a psychologist, John Fabian, who testified that Beasley suffers from depression, alcohol abuse, low self-esteem and a feeling of isolation, all possible results of a troubled, abusive childhood.
NPR: Mother Testifies To Spare Son's Life In Ohio Case
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If you don't want to abstain entirely, there are ways that can help you cut down, including opting for smaller glass sizes, diluting alcohol with soda water or a low-calorie soft drink, alternating between alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and keeping a few nights each week booze-free.
BBC: Alcohol calories 'too often ignored'
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Low self-confidence and self esteem may mean they are more susceptible to drug and alcohol use and criminal activities.
BBC: Mental health: Conduct disorders
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Martin Surl wants to reduce alcohol-related crime, increase community speed watch schemes and address areas of low satisfaction with the police force.
BBC: Gloucestershire PCC plans for 'less crime, more peace'
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Dr. Yamashita, of Fukushima Medical University, said that, though radiation exposure for the general population has likely been low, evacuations and fear of radiation could lead to problems such as increased consumption of alcohol and stress-related illnesses.
WSJ: In Japan, Relief at Radiation's Low Toll