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The Taboo Of Public Drinking

December 24, 2013 By Jay Brooks

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Today’s infographic comes from a story in the HuffPo entitled The Secret History Of The War On Public Drinking, which includes some surprising details. For example, while I think most people believe that drinking in public has been illegal almost forever, ordinances banning public drinking didn’t start being enacted until around 1975. Only about 2% of Americans live in a place which allows public drinking, which is odd when you consider it’s perfectly legal unless a state, town or municipality decides to actively ban it. More backroom mischief by the prohibitionists is more like it. The map below shows where you can and can’t have a beer in your hand in a public place.

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Click here to see the map full size.

Filed Under: Editorial, Just For Fun, Politics & Law, Related Pleasures Tagged With: Anti-Alcohol, Infographics, Law, Statistics



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