I am sorry you weren't satisfied with my answer to this last time you posted it.

Maybe a cause of the limited answering of this question is that I can't tell if you are asking from a moral sense or from a lost of production from intoxication or from a public health view of the issue or all the above.

On top of u/pipkin42 answer I will add... Women in general had more time to gather and campaign than men which is why they seemed to lead the movement. Along with the fact that moral upright women were not socially accepted to enter saloons(which would change with speakeasies), and they bore the brunt of abuse from drunken husbands.

Americans drank every day and at every event. Alcohol was brought over from the beginning of the settlement of the country. The difference over the years is higher alcohol content beverages such as whiskey and rum became more available along with increased production of beer in the late 1800s. The thing that didn't change was the amount of consumption of low alcohol content beer in to consumption of stronger drinks. By 1830 the average american over 15 drank the equivalent of 88 bottles of whiskey a year. In the mid 1800s there were prohibiting laws but by 1860 none were in effect and the Civil War caused a halt to the movement. Yet it picked up momentum again shortly after that, culminating in the Eighteenth Amendment in 1920.

Prohibitioners saw the problem of the drunkenness and what it led to such as prison, vagrancy, loss of job, violence, and ill health effects and wanted to change how all people lived to what they saw as acceptable.

Some people obviously didn't see it as a problem as many continued drinking right thru prohibition.

I can suggest the Ken Burns Prohibition documentary.