5-6-09 Lecture Notes: Alcohol -commercials cannot show alcohol being drunk, against the law -risk factors

for drinking in college students: -being in a sorority fraternity -susce!tibility to alcohol ad"ertisements -# $ times more males drink than females -binge drinking high for whites, lowest for African-american, %is!anics fall in between -drinking highest in northeast, lowest in southwest -alcohol is Arabic word -term &honeymoon' came from mead, which was made from honey -newlyweds encouraged to drink it to concei"e a boy -alcohol made by adding yeast to glucose ( ethyl alcohol -cereal grains often used -ho!!s: dried flowers of female !lants -)*+ alcohol is ma,imum amount, any higher will kill the yeast -distilling allows concentration o"er )*+ -boiling !oint of water: -. -5-+ was early /ritish gold standard of alcohol -based on lighting match at 5-+, creating !oof effect when alcohol was lit -later changed to &!roof' because of /ritish accent -Ale,ander %amilton !ro!osed ta, on li0uor to !ay off war debt -re"enue act: ta,es on li0uor distilled from anything im!orted -whiskey rebels: refused to !ay ta, on li0uor -)5,000 militia men marched out to 1ennsyl"ania to make whiskey rebels !ay ta, -larger than army that fought in re"olutionary war -con"ictions of some farmers first case of treason -both con"icted of treason later set free 2one idiot, other insane3 -american !rohibition mo"ement started in ).00s in the ministry -Nathaniel Anes: )st to make !rohibition argument from health !ers!ecti"e -/en4amin 5ush shared Anes6 concerns -organi7ation of brothers gathered more ministers in !rohibition mo"ement -li0uor ta,ed hea"ily during ci"il war to raise money, called sin ta,es -whiskey ring runners !re"ented ta, re"enue -national !rohibition mo"ement began in ).69 -whiskey remo"ed from list of a!!ro"ed drugs for medicinal !ur!oses -wartime !rohibition act in )9). -9 states !rohibited alcohol by )9)8 -in )9)- congress first considered bill to !re"ent alcohol, ).th amendment -official in )9)9 -national !rohibition act, sometimes called 9olstead Act -could not be distributed, !ossessed, trans!orted st -#) amendment re!ealed !rohibition, went into effect in )988

-!rohibition eliminated &saloon' from American lifestyle -college age drinking continues to rise -wine in :; is ). billion a year business -light beer has more water, so less alcohol, less sugar, less calories -ale has more ho!!s, fermented at warmer tem!eratures -generic wine made from more than ) ty!e of gra!e -"arietal, ha"e at least 5)+ of ) ty!e of gra!e -!inot noir, 7infandel, chardonnay -brandys are fortified wines -gra!e disease in <uro!e, so American "ines had to be trans!lanted to <uro!e -.0 !roof to be li0uor -bourbon uses corn for sugar source -rum is carribbean, sugar cane -rye whiskey uses rye -"odka: 95+ concentration -cordials: /ailey6s