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of books on good living and good health and how to combat tuberculosis.
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So he said you had to exercise, you had to get fresh air,
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and these were huge bestsellers.
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Then he said that drinking was a terrible thing.
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So he did an experiment in class where he would have his
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students do pushups, then he'd give them all a martini.
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Then he'd count how many pushups they could do.
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Then he'd give them a second martini
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and count how many pushups they could do.
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And he found that there was a 10% reduction for each martini.
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And so he said that prohibition--since the average
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business person had two drinks at lunch--that prohibition would