Amendment 18

1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction

2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.

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This amendment made alcoholic beverages illegal. You could not consume them, sale them, or transport them. It also gave congress and each individual states the power to enforce this.

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11/24/2009

Alcohol is Being Forbidden-Limited in 80 Countries

Tourists should take into account native customs and traditions while traveling. The ignorance of national particularities and false “all-allowed” feeling, appearing within a vacation far away from home are two reasons which occasionally bring to tragic events with the tourists.
The arrest of a Swiss who has got 10 years in prison for the King insult illustrates the first reason. The second reason is reminded by the recent death of a seventeen year Danish tourist who has died at a Bulgarian resort because of alcohol abuse.

It appeared that about two thirds of the earth population lead sober lifestyles. About 600 peoples and nationalities on the earth do not smoke, do not drink alcohol and do not narcotize by force of their traditions, cultural and religious values. That’s why a drinking or smoking foreigner causes at least their disapproval.

In many countries drinking or smoking abuse can cause various administrative or criminal penalizing.

The countries with alcohol being prohibited/limited:

Albania, Algeria, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Benin, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Bhutan, East Timor, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea - Bissau, Djibouti, Egypt, Zambia, Western Sahara, Zimbabwe, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Iceland, Yemen, Cambodia, Cameroon, Qatar, Kenya, China, Comoro islands, Cot-Devoir, Kuwait, Laos, Lesotho, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritius, Mauritania, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Maldives, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Arabic Emirates, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Papua-new Guinea, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Swaziland, Seychelles, Senegal, Singapore, Syria, Somali, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Thailand, Tanzania, Togo, Tunis, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Uganda, Finland, Central African Republic, Chad, Sweden, Sri Lanka, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia.

Most numerous nationalities disapproving alcohol:

Chinese (1,125 billion people);

Indians (245 million);

Bengali (189 million);

Punjabi (99 million);

Bahraini (98 million);

Telugu (75 million);

Tai (70 million);

Marathi(67 million);

Tamil (64 million);

Vietnams (62 million);

Egyptians (55 million);

Turkish (53 million);

Gujarati (47 million);

Malayans (35 million);

Oreos (32 million);

Hausa (31 million);

Spamians (30 million);

Kuwiti (30 million);

Persians (26 million);

Soundians (25 million);

Algerians (22 million).

Religions and religious teachings/faiths convicting alcohol:

Islam (more than 1 billion adherents); Sounnhism (850 million); Hinduism (793 million); Buddhism (500 million); Vishnuhism (500 million); Hanafism (400 million); Pentecost (373 million); Malachite (200 million); Shiwaism(198 million); Schism (180 million) Imamhism (140 million); new century (100 million); a Calvinism (62 million); Methodism (60 million); God assembly (22 million); Amidaism (20 million); Adventists of the seventh day (16 million) and others.

Travelers should remember that even in non-prohibiting “cultural” or moderate drinking alcohol countries society imposes limits to many things – drinking alcohol in public places and in the street, driving being drunk, minimal age to purchase and drink alcohol and many other things.

The same regarding tobacco smoking, 5-10 countries annually accept a law limiting it.

But taking, storing or distributing drugs for the non-medical reason in the absolute majority of countries is prohibited under the law.

Thoughts:

I don't think that making alcohol illegal keeps people from drinking it. If alcohol is illegal then more people are going to want to do it. If people are not drinking in the countries that alcohol is illegal its because they have no way of getting it or religious or moral values keeps them from doing so not the law.
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