> #Absinthe makes you crazy and criminal, provokes epilepsy and tuberculosis, and has killed thousands of French people. It makes a ferocious beast of man, a martyr of woman, and a degenerate of the infant, it disorganises and ruins the family and menaces the future of the country.
Still trying to find the original (presumably French) source of this quote from French deputé and #temperance leader Henri Schmidt. As far as I can tell it dates from the early 1900s, possibly 1911.