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Originally Posted by VaSteve

Y'all still have those weird airline bottle liquor laws?

The law may have seemed weird, but it helped prevent establishments from pouring light and charging full price.

Anyway, we did away with it in 2005.

Before 1973, South Carolina did not allow liquor to be sold by the drink. People brought their own bottles into bars and restaurants and bought mixers and ice.

Voters in 1972 approved a constitutional amendment to allow liquor by the drink in containers of 2 ounces or less, says Tom Sponseller, president of the Hospitality Association of South Carolina, which represents 2,300 restaurants, taverns and hotels.

"This was not really unique in the 1970s," Sponseller says, noting that [nine] other states had similar laws at the time. "Over the years, the little bottles fell out of favor."

By 1990, Utah, which has some of the nation's most stringent liquor-control laws, was the only other state with a mini-bottle law. It ended the practice that year.