Editing Temperance movement (section)

{{Short description|Social movement against drinking alcohol}}
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[[File:The Drunkard's Progress - Color.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|[[The Drunkard's Progress|''The Drunkard's Progress'']] (1846) by [[Nathaniel Currier]] warns that moderate drinking may lead to suicide step-by-step.]]
[[File:Affiche 'L'Alcool est un Poison', 1910.jpg|thumb|Poster 'L'Alcool est un Poison', 1910, collection in Jenevermuseum Hasselt]]
The '''temperance movement''' is a [[social movement]] promoting [[Temperance (virtue)|temperance]] or total [[abstinence]] from consumption of [[alcoholic beverage]]s. Participants in the movement typically criticize [[alcohol intoxication]] or promote [[teetotalism]], and its leaders emphasize [[alcohol (drug)|alcohol]]'s negative effects on people's [[Health effects of alcohol|health]], personalities, and family lives. Typically the movement promotes [[alcohol education]] and it also demands the passage of new [[Alcohol law|laws against the sale of alcohol]]: either regulations on the availability of alcohol, or the [[prohibition]] of it. 

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the temperance movement became prominent in many countries, particularly in English-speaking, Scandinavian, and majority [[Protestant]] ones, and it eventually led to national prohibitions [[Prohibition in Canada|in Canada]] (1918 to 1920), Norway (spirits only from [[1919 Norwegian prohibition referendum|1919]] to [[1926 Norwegian continued prohibition referendum|1926]]), Finland (1919 to 1932), and [[Prohibition in the United States|the United States]] ([[Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|1920]] to [[Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution|1933]]), as well as provincial prohibition [[Alcohol prohibition in India|in India]] (1948 to present). A number of [[List of temperance organizations|temperance organizations]] promote temperance.