Professor Rod Phillips has published a short piece, in the weekly Newsletter of Meininger’s Wine Business International (an important wine trade publication from Germany), on the notion of ‘neo-Prohibitionism’. This is a term that is becoming widely used in the alcohol business to refer to advice from public health organizations (such as the World Health Organization) that drinking alcohol is unhealthy, and that people should reduce their intake or stop drinking altogether.
In his contribution, Rod argues that the term misrepresents what alcohol prohibition policies were historically and are today. He suggests that advice to reduce drinking is more akin to Temperance than to Prohibition campaigns, and that the current decline in alcohol consumption around the world reflects social and cultural changes, not the onset of any form of Prohibition.
You can read the article here: