Prohibition laws were difficult to enforce because the Americanpublic was quite used to the consumption of Alcoholic Beverages.With that in mind, prohibition attempted to change a long livedtrait in the USA and this habit and desire to consume alcoholicbeverages was a world wide habit. Therefore, genuine alcohol waslegally produced and smuggled into the US from nearby nations suchas Canada. Also, prohibition prohibited the production anddistribution of these beverages, it did not prohibit theconsumption of these drinks.Illegal production and distribution of alcoholic beverages founda ready made market of Americans who had no problem with"drinking". As an illegal beverage, the so-called Underworld, madehuge profits by either producing or smuggling alcohol into the USA.For example "bathtub gin" could be made in the USA and sold tonight clubs known as speak easy's.The huge profits made by so-called "gangsters" were used tobribe politicians and law officers to look the other way when itcame to enforcing prohibition.