SOC 3382 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Binge Drinking, Alcoholic Drink, Aldehyde Dehydrogenase

• School: University of Houston
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3382
• Professor: Graves

Document Summary

Regulation after 1933: some states remained dry after national prohibition, most states allowed beer sales, mississippi was the last dry state, allowed alcohol purchase and consumption in 1966. In 1970s, 30 states lowered drinking age to 18 or 19. It was raised again to 21 following concerns over young people dying in alcohol-related traffic accidents. Taxation: federal and state taxes and licensing fees amount to about half the cost of an alcoholic beverage, the congress initiated a significant tax increase in 1991, which resulted in fairly modest declines in purchases. Regional differences in the united states: one-third of the adult population label themselves as abstainers, half the alcohol is consumed by 10 percent of the drinkers. Differences in per-capita sales reflect differences in the degree of urbanization and some regional cultural differences: alcohol sales are higher in population centers, examples: district of columbia and las vegas and reno in nevada.