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1. Department of Environmental Health & Safety, University of Michigan. Poison. (http://www.dehs.umn.edu/homeiaq/glossary_frame.html#p); Natural Resources Defense Council. Poison (http://www.nrdc.org/reference/glossary/p.asp); Wikipedia. Poison (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison)
2. Hanson, David
J. Preventing Alcohol Abuse: Alcohol, Culture, and Control.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995. See also “The Ku Klux Klan (KKK),
Alcohol, and Prohibition” (http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol-info/Controversies/1107362364.html).
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) insisted that
“Medical writers, without exception, class alcohol as a poison.”
However, the scientists of the Committee of Fifty for the Investigation
of the Liquor Problem reported that this was an erroneous assertion.
Billings, John S., et al. (for the Committee of fifty for
the Investigation of the Liquor Problem). Physiological Aspects
of the Liquor Problem. Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1903.
However, even today, the WCTU insists that “alcohol is a poison”
(http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:Xwx2ymGV1eMJ:
www.wctu.org/hearing_alcoholhealthclaims.html
+%22Alcohol+is+a+poison%22&hl=en) as does the Prohibition National
Committee of the Prohibition Party (http://www.prohibition.org/statesman_200406.PDF).
It insists that “ETHYL ALCOHOL IS A POISON. No intelligent
person knowingly ingests poison unless they want to die prematurely.”
3. U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services and SAMHSA’s National Clearinghouse
for Alcohol & Drug Information. Black History Month. “Alcohol
is a toxin or poison.“ (http://www.health.org/seasonal/blackhistory/diabetes.aspx);
Students Against Destructive Decisions or SADD (formerly Students
Against Drunk Driving) Silent Killer. “Alcohol is a poison.”(http://bhs.broo.k12.wv.us/BHS/Clubs/SADD/A-Poising.htm);
Washington State Coalition to Reduce Underage Drinking. “alcohol
is a poison” (http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:kUfisHHIXmoJ:clearinghouse.adhl.org/
campaigns/ruad/ed_art.html+%22Alcohol+is+a+poison%22&hl=en);
Parent Resources and Information on Drug Education (PRIDE) Alcohol
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(http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:
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