If you ever speak with someone who has lived through Prohibition, you'd hear that it didn't work. There are still dry counties in some states (ie Kentucky) and people will find ways around it if they try hard enough.

I understand what you are saying. If your life has been touched badly enough by something (like alcohol), it only reinforces your conviction that its 'removal from the face of the planet' is the solution.

BUT, as others have mentioned, if someone has the personality to allow alcohol to become a solution to their problems, they will only find something else if the alcohol is removed.