Was heute die Prävention war früher die Panikmache. Das war offensichtlich beim Alkohol auch nicht anders als bei den Drogen, wie dieser kurz Propagandafilm aus dem Jahre 1958 zeigt.
Teenagers Bud and Jack, eager to get some alcohol from the liquor store, ask the adult to buy it for them. Instead, the adult tells them a story of three teenagers who learn the hard way that “alcohol is a violent narcotic.” In true Sid Davis form, the story ends with one innocent teen being killed and one who becomes an alcoholic bum, leaving the others to deal with guilt from their night of reckless abandon.