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The prohibition referendum in 1922 was narrowly defeated with 51% against. Despite striking posters such as this:
Payday evening Vote Yes.
Instead there was monopoly and rationing until 1955 when rationing was abolished. And taxes. We still have an alocohol monopoly, though rules on private import has been liberalised by the EU (in contravention to what was claimed about the exception when Sweden entered the union), though the last decades drinking has gone down, and youth drinking has been halfed since the 1980ies. Alcohol liberals often claim that drinking has gone down because of liberalisation, I think it is the other way around, liberalisation has been tolerated because it hasn't caused spikes in consumtion.
Swedish alcohol taxes are rather well accepted, even though home stills are still very much existing and brining home a lot of duty free is a national sport. Taxes are proportional to the amount of alcohol, so drinks with less then 2,25% alcohol has no alcohol tax, and then it is climbing. A 50 cl bottle of 5% alcohol (beer, cider etc) has a alcohol tax of about half a euro. While a 70 cl bottle of 40% alcohol (so whisky, vodka or similar) has a alcohol tax of about 14.5 euros. So a bottle of cheap booze starts around 20 euros.
According to Folkhälsomyndigheten, the peak consumtion was in 2004 at 10,5 litres, then a gradual declne to 8,5 litres in 2020. If we add the WHO numbers we get: 1996 6 litres 2004 10,5 litres 2016 9,2 litres 2020 8,5 litres
Between 1996 and 2004 was the year 2000, when the guarantees Sweden received on joining the EU expired and the much more limited rules on private import was voided, and the private import quota went from rather limited to functionally unlimited. If that had been clear in 1994, the sobriety movement would have been campaigning on the side of not entering the EU, and considering the slim margin - 52,8% in favor - Sweden probably wouldn't have joined.
Last years number's regarding the membership was 16% opposed 58% in favour, while on the euro it was 64% opposed and 21% in favour.
There was a majority against EU membership in the first years of membership, so this is pretty much as popular as the membership has ever been.
The euro had pretty even numbers until the euro crisis when support plummeted to around 10%.
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