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  2. Gin Craze - Wikipedia

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    Hogarth's engraving Gin Lane is a well known image of the gin craze, and is often paired with "Beer Street", creating a contrast between the miserable lives of gin drinkers and the healthy and enjoyable lives of beer drinkers. [6] The Gin Craze began to diminish after the Gin Act 1751. This Act lowered the annual licence fees, but encouraged ...

  3. Gin - Wikipedia

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    Gin emerged as the national alcoholic drink of England during the so-called Gin Craze of 1695–1735. Gin is produced from a wide range of herbal ingredients in a number of distinct styles and brands. After juniper, gin tends to be flavoured with herbs, spices, floral or fruit flavours, or often a combination.

  4. Alcohol tolerance - Wikipedia

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    Beer Street and Gin Lane by William Hogarth, 1751, detailing the Gin Craze in UK cities during the early Industrial Revolution. Alcohol tolerance refers to the bodily responses to the functional effects of ethanol. This includes direct tolerance, speed of recovery from insobriety and resistance to the development of alcohol use disorder.

  5. Beer Street and Gin Lane - Wikipedia

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    The two prints were issued a month after Hogarth's friend Henry Fielding published his contribution to the debate on gin: An Inquiry into the Late Increase in Robbers, and they aim at the same targets, though Hogarth's work lays more blame for the gin craze on oppression by the governing class and focuses less on the choice of crime as a ticket to a life of ease.

  6. Temperance movement in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Gin Lane by William Hogarth, 1751. Before the 19th century, there were diatribes published against drunkenness and excess, but total abstinence from alcohol was very rarely advocated or practised. In the 18th century, there was a "gin craze" in Great Britain, as satirised in William Hogarth's Gin Lane. [1]

  7. In the midst of the THC seltzer craze, this Milwaukee ... - AOL

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    The gin-like spirit has 2.5 milligrams of hemp-derived THC in one shot. It was made to swap out equally with gin, so one shot of FlipSide would equal one shot of alcohol.

  8. Gin Act 1736 - Wikipedia

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    Gin consumption in the United Kingdom increased markedly during the late 17th and early 18th centuries during the so-called Gin Craze.As consumption continued to grow, gin began to be blamed for a variety of social ills including crime, prostitution and mental illness.

  9. Play Oklahoma Gin Online for Free - AOL.com

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    Oklahoma Gin. Play the popular variation on the classic game of Gin. By Masque Publishing