I have here a reproduction of the British Daily Express newspaper from September 13, 1930, which offers the following editorial opinion in the context of reporting on the America's Cup yacht race.

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British sailors are reported to be finding the beer at prohibitionist Newport, U.S.A., much better than the beer they get at home. At last - at long last - a really sensible argument in favour of prohibition. Its opponents have used the old "Cui Bono?" tag. Here is the answer. It is good for the beer.

The editor of the Daily Express, at least, seems to have regarded it with a sort of wry amusement and the suggestion that there's never been a really good reason presented.

There have been various anti-alcoholism, temperance movements. Usually they did not recommend full prohibition though.

I used to believe that was because the Scottish Protestants who settled in the US were more radically anti-alcohol than eg. Lutherans or Catholics but it turned out to be not right and says the turning point was the Second Great Awakening So it is indeed coming from a difference withing various forms of Christanity but a much later one.

Nevertheless, anti-alcoholism movements existed. Here are two posters, one from France:

http://www.studiolum.com/wang/ads/alco/001.jpg (Armand Colin, the first version published in 1898)

and from Hungary:

http://www.studiolum.com/wang/ads/alco/ovak-00.jpg

Top row: first and last glass. Middle row: comparing the sober and the alcoholic at 20 and 32. Bottom row: blessings of a sober life / the consequences of drunkenness.

It is remarkable that the French version focuses on health the Hungarian version on alcoholism causing poverty.