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Or: "No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health"

Opinion: Informing of the dangers of something is not prohibiting something.

Prohibition was not in response to the invention of hard liquor. Distillation is a lot older than that.

Or even just social norms around day drinking or drinking age etc.

That was hundreds (or thousands, depending on how you look at it) of years later though, and more a reaction to religion, not new alcoholic potency.