Trying to extrapolate how people would feel about a new law based solely on the existence of a similar law is disingenuous at best. You're ignoring that the law was massively unpopular, was seldom enforced, almost never respected, and it was the only amendment to have been repealed.
Saying that Americans would take a ban on tobacco because they banned alcohol doesn't hold up because alcohol was never actually banned. The law existed, yes, but alcohol was always available to pretty much everyone.
Repealing a constitutional amendment is massively difficult. That should tell you a lot about how Americans felt about it.
I'm saying prohibition is a perfect example of why Americans won't support a total ban on tobacco because it very explicitly and very definitively shows how much they did not support a total ban on alcohol. They hated the ban so much that they had to change the constitution. You can't get any more definitive than that.
> Repealing a constitutional amendment is massively difficult
But passing one isn't?
Massively unpopular?
Please tell me how a massively unpopular law ever becomes a constitutional amendment. It does not happen.
"Ratification was achieved on January 16, 1919 when Nebraska became the 36th of the 48 states to ratify the amendment. On January 29, acting secretary of state Frank L. Polk certified the ratification. By 1922, 46 states had ratified the amendment.
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What do you think my argument is? For me it is not hard to imagine things ever happening when they already happened.
Trying to extrapolate how people would feel about a new law based solely on the existence of a similar law is disingenuous at best. You're ignoring that the law was massively unpopular, was seldom enforced, almost never respected, and it was the only amendment to have been repealed.
Saying that Americans would take a ban on tobacco because they banned alcohol doesn't hold up because alcohol was never actually banned. The law existed, yes, but alcohol was always available to pretty much everyone.
Repealing a constitutional amendment is massively difficult. That should tell you a lot about how Americans felt about it.
I'm saying prohibition is a perfect example of why Americans won't support a total ban on tobacco because it very explicitly and very definitively shows how much they did not support a total ban on alcohol. They hated the ban so much that they had to change the constitution. You can't get any more definitive than that.
But passing one isn't?
Massively unpopular?
Please tell me how a massively unpopular law ever becomes a constitutional amendment. It does not happen.
"Ratification was achieved on January 16, 1919 when Nebraska became the 36th of the 48 states to ratify the amendment. On January 29, acting secretary of state Frank L. Polk certified the ratification. By 1922, 46 states had ratified the amendment.
The following states ratified the amendment:
Mississippi: January 7, 1918
Virginia: January 11, 1918
Kentucky: January 14, 1918
North Dakota: January 25, 1918
South Carolina: January 29, 1918
Maryland: February 13, 1918
Montana: February 19, 1918
Texas: March 4, 1918
Delaware: March 18, 1918
South Dakota: March 20, 1918
Massachusetts: April 2, 1918
Arizona: May 24, 1918
Georgia: June 26, 1918
Louisiana: August 3, 1918
Florida: November 27, 1918
Michigan: January 2, 1919
Ohio: January 7, 1919
Oklahoma: January 7, 1919
Idaho: January 8, 1919
Maine: January 8, 1919
West Virginia: January 9, 1919
California: January 13, 1919
Tennessee: January 13, 1919
Washington: January 13, 1919
Arkansas: January 14, 1919
Illinois: January 14, 1919
Indiana: January 14, 1919
Kansas: January 14, 1919
Alabama: January 15, 1919
Colorado: January 15, 1919
Iowa: January 15, 1919
New Hampshire: January 15, 1919
Oregon: January 15, 1919
North Carolina: January 16, 1919
Utah: January 16, 1919
Nebraska: January 16, 1919
Missouri: January 16, 1919
Wyoming: January 16, 1919
Minnesota: January 17, 1919
Wisconsin: January 17, 1919
New Mexico: January 20, 1919
Nevada: January 21, 1919
New York: January 29, 1919
Vermont: January 29, 1919
Pennsylvania: February 25, 1919
New Jersey: March 9, 1922"
Massively unpopular.
That's your actual argument. Massively unpopular.
You're still hanging your entire argument on the mere existence of the law and ignoring the reality of the situation.
You should read into the history of the law, because the facts disagree with you.