“You booze, you lose”

“You booze, you lose” is a popular rhyme that is often used in anti-drunk driving campaigns. “With dope, there’s hope, but with booze you lose” was cited in print in 1967. “With Booze You Lose” was a 1977 newspaper headline and “When You Booze You Lose Dept.” was cited in a 1982 newspaper.
   
“You booze, you lose” was cited in an anti-drunk driving exhibit in 1987.
 
 
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18 April 1967, Nevada (MO) Daily Mail, “The News Pulse,” pg. 1, col. 1:
Booze You Lose
LOS ANGELES (AP)—Use of LSD and narcotics is much less a national problem than alcoholism, two psychiatrists told the California Medical Association.
 
“The hippies have a saying,” Dr.Keith Ditman of UCLA said Monday. “With dope, there’s hope, but with booze you lose.”
 
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25 July 1973, The Day (New London, CT), “Some Take Only So Much of Watergate” by Michael Whalen, pg. 1, col. 7:
The graffiti on the doorframe of one restaurant said:
 
“With booze
You lose;
With dope
There’s hope.”
 
26 March 1977, Kingsport (TN) Times-News, pg. 6, col. 3:
‘The Fonz’ Addresses Senators:
Aayyy, With Booze You Lose’
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Speaking from California on closed-circuit TV, with teeny boppers squealing in the background, “The Fonz” told Congress Friday he does not drink and neither should the youngsters who idolize him.
 
4 June 1982, Lexington (KY) Herald “People,” pg. B2, col.1:
When You Booze You Lose Dept.: Susan Anton doesn’t appear to have any flaws, but Dudley Moore’s car does since she drove it into a parked car in LA. She was arrested Wednesday night for investigation of drunken driving and released after about an hour.
 
27 February 1987, The News & Courier (Charleston, SC), “Ask Ann” by Ann Landers, pg. 12-D, col. 2:
With Booze You Lose, Says Ann
 
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31 December 1987, Lewiston (ME) Journal, “Wrecked auto is graphic reminder” by Jason Wolfe, pg. 3A, col. 1:
LEWISTON—A display at Lisbon and Canal streets doesn’t just tell passers-by of the dangers of drinking and driving—it shows them.
 
The exhibit in front of the Bilodeau Insurance Agency, 541 Lisbon St., featured a wrecked auto that was involved in an alcohol-related accident. Flanking it are signs that read ‘You booze, you lose” and “Cars and bars don’t mi.”
 
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Graffiti List
Murray S. Kucherawy
6/18/91
(...)
With booze you lose with dope you hope
     
Google Groups: alt.drugs
** Marijuana Hypocrites Who Say It’s Wrong For You **
D.G. Porter
2/20/98
(...)
“With booze, you lose!  Weed is what you need!”
 
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report Surfside, TX
Lemming Wear®
9/28/98
with booze you lose
with dope there’s hope (not much)
 
hark
Big Daddy (1999)
Sonny: A caterpillar.
Julian: That’s right a capitillar.
Sonny: Capitillar, hey, stayin clean pal?
Kid: Yes.
Sonny: That’s right, you drink the booze you lose, remember that punk.
 
Google Books
Behold the Proverbs of a People:
Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics
By Wolfgang Mieder
Jackson, MS: The University of Mississippi Press
2014
Pg. ?:
You booze you lose. 1986. [...] The rhyming proverb may have originated as an anti-proverb based on “If you snooze, you lose.”
 
IMDb.com (The Internet Movie Database)
Sin City Saints: Season 1, Episode 6
You Booze, You Lose (23 Mar. 2015)
TV Episode |  23 min |  Comedy