Alcoholic Beverages in Sweden - Temperance Movement

Temperance Movement

The temperance movement is strong in Sweden, especially in agricultural areas, and often connected with the "free churches" (non-conformists, that is Protestants outside the Church of Sweden). The Straight Edge movement spread among Swedish youth in the 1990s.

Scandinavian Lutherans played a large part in supporting Prohibition in the United States.

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