[ noun ] a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages <noun.person>
Prohibitionist \Pro`hi*bi"tion*ist\, n. 1. One who favors prohibitory duties on foreign goods in commerce; a protectionist.
2. One who favors the prohibition of the sale (or of the sale and manufacture) of alcoholic liquors as beverages.
Vintners are worried about what they see as a wave of prohibitionist feeling in America, expressed in such ways as new label laws, restaurant posting of toxicity warnings for pregnant women and new taxes.