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: These efforts were often fueled by religious fervor, such as the Second Great Awakening, which utilized pamphlets and propaganda to highlight the negative effects of alcohol on health and family life.

: Early medical writers began to classify habitual drunkenness as a "disease," even when it was initiated by a "vicious" act of choice. Reformers like Benjamin Rush argued that victims deserved compassion similar to those afflicted with other maladies. intemperance

: Compulsive actions like a "terrible shopping habit" or intemperate labor. : These efforts were often fueled by religious