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*ProtagonistCenteredMorality: While the comic accuses people who sell alcohol of pushing their booze onto young people by lying to them (and states that people who would otherwise drink should think for themselves), the "Legion of Truth" (a group of {{Dry Crusader}}s) is ''not'' condemned for pushing their anti-alcohol agenda on young people, often using LiesDamnedLiesAndStatistics to do so.
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*FoulFirstDrink: Downplayed; the narrative states that Mr. Miller didn't like the taste of his first drink... not that it prevented him from asking for more.
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*AcquiredErrorAtThePrinter: One of the comic's sources is "champion miler Gill [sic] Dobbs."
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*CantHoldHisLiquor: Exaggerated with Mr. Miller, who loses all self-control the moment he takes his first drink and becomes a drunk. Also, according to the comic, all forms of alcohol in any amount cause drunkenness, even moderate drinking.
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*PropagandaPiece: Being a post-Prohibition temperance-driven tract against the apparent dangers of alcohol, it makes [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity no distinction between alcohol use and alcohol abuse]].
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* LiesDamnedLiesAndStatistics: The comic repeatedly uses statistics to back its arguments against alcohol. One notable example is citing Healy and Bronner's claim that "28 to 45% of all juvenile delinquents come from homes where there is excessive drinking." Apparently, Healy and Bronner couldn't agree as to which percentage was the more realistic scenario.
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* TakeThat: People who support alcohol in moderation aren't even given a fighting chance in this comic. Every character who drinks is depicted as grossly beholden by the liquor industry, which is depicted as ObviouslyEvil.
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*LiesDamnedLiesAndStatistics: The comic repeatedly uses statistics to back its arguments against alcohol. One notable example is citing Healy and Bronner's claim that "28 to 45% of all juvenile delinquents come from homes where there is excessive drinking." Apparently, Healy and Bronner couldn't agree as to which percentage was the more realistic scenario.
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* TakeThat: People who support alcohol aren't even given a fighting chance in this comic. Every character who drinks is depicted as grossly beholden by the liquor industry, which is depicted as ObviouslyEvil.
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*CreatorProvincialism: The story is implied to take place in the United States, and as such, at no point are the drinking habits of wine-growing countries in Europe even discussed.
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*JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: This comic outright argues that one drink of any alcoholic beverage is all it takes to turn someone into an [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]]. That said, one character, upon hearing about Mr. Miller's DescentIntoAddiction, has to admit that "Miller did slide fast--even for an alcoholic."
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*LiquidCourage: Defied; among the people the high-school students talk to is a football coach who argues that athletes should never use alcohol, using the arguments of Knute Rockne (who supported Prohibition to his death in 1931) and Gil Dodds to support his claim.
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''Unkept Promise'' is a 1949 pro-temperance propaganda comic about the apparent dangers of alcohol, illustrating this with the story of a family man who immediately goes on a hard downward spiral after trying just one glass of booze.
!!OUR [[TvTropesWillRuinYourLife TROPERS]] HAVE BEEN BETRAYED!:
*TheAlcoholic: After trying just one glass of booze, a man named John Miller goes from a perfectly functional man to a low-down drunk who forecloses on his house, loses his job, and repeatedly ends up in the drunk tank, his family falls into poverty, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and apparently his hat turns blue]].
*AntiAlcoholAesop: [[CaptainObvious Natch]], to the point where it absolutely refuses to give the other side a chance to make its own argument.
*DryCrusader: The high-school kids become the so-called "Legion of Truth" after they hear only anti-alcohol arguments from people who are against alcohol to begin with.
*FalseDichotomy: Meta example; as far as this comic is concerned, you're either TheTeetotaler or TheAlcoholic. Even moderate drinking is (wrongfully) portrayed as a gateway into alcoholism.
*INeedAFreakingDrink: Mr. Miller, previously TheTeetotaler, takes his first drink after his business goes into a slump. This is depicted as the start of his DescentIntoAddiction.
*TakeThat: People who support alcohol aren't even given a fighting chance in this comic. Every character who drinks is depicted as grossly beholden by the liquor industry, which is depicted as ObviouslyEvil.
!!OUR [[TvTropesWillRuinYourLife TROPERS]] HAVE BEEN BETRAYED!:
*TheAlcoholic: After trying just one glass of booze, a man named John Miller goes from a perfectly functional man to a low-down drunk who forecloses on his house, loses his job, and repeatedly ends up in the drunk tank, his family falls into poverty, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and apparently his hat turns blue]].
*AntiAlcoholAesop: [[CaptainObvious Natch]], to the point where it absolutely refuses to give the other side a chance to make its own argument.
*DryCrusader: The high-school kids become the so-called "Legion of Truth" after they hear only anti-alcohol arguments from people who are against alcohol to begin with.
*FalseDichotomy: Meta example; as far as this comic is concerned, you're either TheTeetotaler or TheAlcoholic. Even moderate drinking is (wrongfully) portrayed as a gateway into alcoholism.
*INeedAFreakingDrink: Mr. Miller, previously TheTeetotaler, takes his first drink after his business goes into a slump. This is depicted as the start of his DescentIntoAddiction.
*TakeThat: People who support alcohol aren't even given a fighting chance in this comic. Every character who drinks is depicted as grossly beholden by the liquor industry, which is depicted as ObviouslyEvil.
