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Life in the 1920s was also chaotic which was usually fueled by the excessive use of alcohol. Please list three examples of times when the characters may have been influenced by the excessive use of alcohol.

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At the national level, Prohibition cost the federal government a total of $11 billion in lost tax revenue, while costing over $300 million to enforce. The most lasting consequence was that many states and the federal government would come to rely on income tax revenue to fund their budgets going forward.
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