| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Let's ban cigarettes and alcohol next!The excise taxes collected from alcohol and especially tobacco are disproportionately huge, and governments will not willingly forgo them.Prohibition was not a practical possibility until after the passing of Amendment XVI allowed non-apportioned, and therefore much higher, income taxes whose revenues proved much more lucrative than alcohol excise taxes.
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