Here's whats in store for them:
Lowered legal levels of intoxication allowing easier and more frequent arrests for DUI allowing increased state revenue.
Increased taxation on alcohol as has happened with tobacco products thereby generating increased state revenues.
An open window policy on suing the seller of any alcohol product when the consumer has been involved in any injury related accident.
More Lawsuits targeting the alcohol industry for allegedly targeting non-drinking age minors (ZIMA IMMEDIATELY COMES TO MIND).
An ongoing assault by MADD to ban alcohol which will never be accomplished following our previous experience with prohibition but nevertheless a tool to be used by our crooked politicians in order to milk every single nickle and dime that is to be had from the consumption of alcohol...........
You see, it is much easier for our government and its associated legal whores to profit from a "stigmatized" product than a banned one........
You've got that right.
I've been saying it for years that smoking bans, particularly for bars, taverns, and pool halls, are a back door means of eliminating that particular "blight" on society.
I remember one of the more vocal antis in Delaware talking about how the bans won't hurt the bars, in fact they would be bursting with more business from people like him who didn't go in them because of the smoking.
After the ban took effect, I ran into him and invited him out for a beer at a local pub. When he declined, I asked him why not, since he said he would be among those that would be helping the bottom lines of these places once the smokers left. his answer was........"I don't drink."
In other words, everything he said to legislators and the press about the smoking ban was a bald-faced lie. And he was proud of it and was looking forward to seeing the local taverns go out of business.