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2024-04-21 18:20:51 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
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This is missing important context. During prohibition, the federal government mandated adding poisons (including methanol) to industrial alcohol to discourage people from drinking. However, bootleggers continued to use the industrial alcohol, which led to deaths. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972336/#:~:text=But%20as%20author%20Deborah%20Blum,discourage%20people%20from%20drinking%20it.
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