Um, prohibition is the complete ban of all alcohol. umvi is proposing the ban of alcohol related advertising. One is completely different than the other.

The Scandinavian countries show that if you do not prohibit completely, but just make people jump through some hoops to get it and/or make it very expensive, it sort of works.

I think Swedes just end up buying more when visiting systembolaget. And students buy van loads on road trips to Germany.

I find that there is much more smoking (including indoor) and drinking in Denmark than most of any other place I lived, or maybe I am just older now and can’t the hangovers are much longer??

Maybe they meant Sweden/Norway only? I'm not sure. I think the alcohol tax in Sweden is like a full 7x higher than Denmark. I could be wrong there. This is second hand from an old co worker, and years out of date.

Yes, I had Iceland, Norway, and Sweden in mind. Iceland is very strict. Denmark is pretty continental in this regard.

Banning advertising of something is a bit different than banning the thing itself