Joe -- a good start is Joe Gusfield's Prohibition: the impact of political utopianism, in J. Braeman et al., eds., Change and Continuity in Twentieth-Century America: The Twenties. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1968.... Much of the data everyone relies on dates back to Warburton's dissertation, published in 1932 by Columbia University Press. There are various rereadings of Prohibition by one or another side in the current debates on drug policy. One thing to keep in mind is that, in terms of percapita consumption and cirrhosis mortality, places like Australia and the UK accomplished much the same effects with strict alcohol controls (not to mention WWI and the global depression) rather than prohibition. Robin >>> Joe Marmo <[log in to unmask]> 05/18/98 12:44am >>> Could you recommend a book for me to read the effects of prohibition. I am curious whether or not it actually worked better than msot people give it credit for. And how would it work today?