But if the worst fears of the temperance lobby are realised, fewer pills will probably be popped.
Born into poverty in Walton-le-Dale, near Preston, he was acutely aware of the damaging affects of alcohol on the working classes, setting up the temperance movement which he promoted for the rest of his life.
But perhaps, as a commentator in Barrons suggests, the Internet had been rife with rumour that the meeting was a gathering of representatives of the World Temperance Organisation.
As in many other towns across the country, a temperance hall was set up in the 19th Century to encourage the area's mining community to come together, while also promoting abstinence from alcohol.
The building originally opened as a temperance hall in the 19th Century to encourage the area's mining community to come together, while promoting abstinence from alcohol.
Mr Norquist is the pugnacious founder of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a mighty pressure group that deems taxes no less of an evil than alcohol was in the eyes of the 19th-century temperance movements.
Prudence may be dead, but Temperance is looking healthier by the day.
Several decades later the epidemic has passed and a period of relative temperance sets in.
Dawley Town Hall, in the Shropshire borough of Telford and Wrekin, was built as a temperance hall in 1873.
Rather than making a push for temperance, LSU is considering a plan to cash in on the situation.
"Questions based upon temperance, religion, morality, in all their multiplied forms, ought not to be the basis of politics, " declared Senator John Sherman of Ohio in 1873.
Without fiscal temperance, as well as education reform and a better regulatory environment, there will neither be the opportunity for social mobility nor resources for a social safety net, public or private.
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