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1865 Amer. Jrnl. Pharmacy 37 314 The actual influence which the alcohol tax is producing on the quality of pharmaceutical preparations.

1877 Derby Mercury 7 Feb. 6/7 The evils of alcohol drinking were dwelt on at some length.

1922 F. P. Grove Over Prairie Trails in R. Brown & D. Bennett Anthol. Canad. Lit. in Eng. (1982) I. 260 I always carried a little alcohol stove, and with my tarpaulin I could convert my cutter within three minutes into a windproof tent.

1930 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 146/2 The bootleggers use a modern chemical still and ‘rectifying column,’ exactly like those developed for the legitimate alcohol industry.

1959 Listener 4 June 968/2 They even tackled the vested privileges and subsidies of the powerful alcohol lobby.

1974 Times 10 Oct. 3/8 He [sc. Dr Morton Reynolds] called for a restriction on alcohol advertising, particularly on television.

1987 Today's Health Apr. 64/1 Speakeasy provides a receptive environment, free of the occasionally parochial tone and value judgements associated with traditional alcohol education programs.

1994 Up Here (Yellowknife, N.W. Territories) Nov. 43/2 Alcohol awareness has increased. Ten years ago you never saw Dry Grads. Drinking and driving is decreasing.

1998 M. Gluck Superplonk 1999 316 Dry, black cherry-edged fruit of winsomeness and light with a most agreeable alcohol level (10.5%).

2011 Independent 22 June 14/2 A doctor who got behind the wheel of his car while..almost four times over the alcohol limit was banned from driving for 12 months.