Coca-Cola Was First Marketed in the 1860s as a Patent

question 83

Multiple Choice

Coca-Cola was first marketed in the 1860s as a patent medicine, designed to offer the virtues of cocaine without the vices of alcohol. The new beverage was invigorating and popular; today cocaine is not just banned but widely demonized. This is an example of:

• A) structural strain.
• B) formerly mainstream practices becoming deviant.
• C) the tendency of the United States to become more puritanical.
• D) the emergence of a counterculture.
• E) conflict between the economically powerful and the rest of society.

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