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-	The term '''Prohibition''', also known as ''Dry Law'', refers to a law in a certain country by which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of [[alcoholic beverage]]s is restricted or illegal. The term also applies to the periods in the histories of the countries during which the prohibition was enforced. Usually the term as referred to a historical period is applied to countries of European culture. In the [[Muslim World]], consumption of alcoholic beverages is sometimes forbidden according to Islamic Law.	+	The term '''Prohibition''', also known as ''Dry Law'', refers to a law in a certain country by which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of [[alcoholic beverage]]s is restricted or [[illegal]]. The term also applies to the periods in the histories of the countries during which the prohibition was enforced. Usually the term as referred to a historical period is applied to countries of European culture. In the [[Muslim World]], consumption of alcoholic beverages is sometimes forbidden according to Islamic Law.
	In the early twentieth century, much of the impetus for the prohibition movement in the Nordic countries and North America came from [[Protestant]] wariness of alcohol.		In the early twentieth century, much of the impetus for the prohibition movement in the Nordic countries and North America came from [[Protestant]] wariness of alcohol.

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The term Prohibition, also known as Dry Law, refers to a law in a certain country by which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages is restricted or illegal. The term also applies to the periods in the histories of the countries during which the prohibition was enforced. Usually the term as referred to a historical period is applied to countries of European culture. In the Muslim World, consumption of alcoholic beverages is sometimes forbidden according to Islamic Law.

In the early twentieth century, much of the impetus for the prohibition movement in the Nordic countries and North America came from Protestant wariness of alcohol.

The first half of the 20th century saw periods of prohibition of alcoholic beverages in several countries:

• 1900 to 1948 in Prince Edward Island, and for shorter periods in other locations in Canada
• 1914 to 1925 in Russia and the Soviet Union
• 1915 to 1922 in Iceland (though beer was still prohibited until 1989)
• 1916 to 1927 in Norway (wine and beer also included in 1917)
• 1919 to 1932 in Finland (called kieltolaki)
• 1920 to 1933 in the United States

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