The following account may startle you.
And it may save you from a horrifying fate.

In the 1950s a sinister new menace swept America. Spawned in the vile speakeasies of the 1930s, the Martini Menace spread like hell-fire across an unsuspecting nation, taking a frightful toll. Its first effect is sudden, uncontrollable laughter, then monstrous extravagence, then the loss of power to resist, then finally acts of ghastly violence. Pushed by money hungry and degenerate bar workers, many good clean Americans fell prey to the Stemmed Glass Satan.

This is one such story.