Prof Coker, author of Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement, says the idea that consumption of alcohol is sinful is deeply embedded in the southern evangelical mind.

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The Obama administration has financed much of this prohibition movement with CDC, NIH, HHS etc Federal Grants, used illegally to pay for non-profit groups to lobby for smoking bans at every level of government across the entire untied states.

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She explains that "because of that prohibition, the free movement and the prohibition of discrimination on the grounds of nationality in the EU cannot be relied upon".

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Look at history, and you can see the religious left at the heart of America's great social-reform movements, from the fight against slavery to the New Deal to the civil-rights movement (for some reason, Prohibition is usually left off the list).

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Then you have the German immigrants who become targets of the Prohibition war because that links arms with the anti-war movement in the teens.

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