Ninety-five years ago today, January 28, 1930 (December 29, 1929 in the lunar calendar), ten years after the implementation of the Prohibition Act, the number of alcoholic intoxication patients increased sharply. Moonshine brewery found in a Chicago building On January 20, 1930, the MetLife Insurance Company reported that the number of people insured by the company who died of alcoholism last year was 35 times higher than 10 years earlier. Supporters of Prohibition are sounding the death knell against the 10-year-old prohibition law in the United States until January 1930. Prohibition under the 18th Amendment to the Constitution was implemented at midnight on January 15, 1920. Since then, the issue has become the focus of national debate. Proponents of Prohibition called it a good thing, because the money that ordinary working-class families used to buy alcohol could now be used to feed and clothe their children. Opponents said the law encouraged corruption and murder, made illegal brewers rich, and poisoned countless people to death by drinking bad wine. Bootleggers use this method to smuggle bootlegging alcohol