The reform had an effect on alcoholism in the country, as evident from statistics showing some fall in criminality and rise in life expectancy, but economically it was a serious blow to the state budget (a loss of approximately 100 billion rubles to the exchequer according to Alexander Yakovlev) after alcohol production migrated to the black market economy.
Reforma je imala utjecaja na smanjenje alkoholizam u zemlji, što se vidi iz statistike koje pokazuju pad kriminaliteta i porast očekivanoga trajanja života, no ekonomski je to bio ozbiljan udarac državnom proračunu (gubitak od oko 100 milijardi rubalja prema Aleksanderu Jakovljevu) nakon što je proizvodnja alkohola prerasla na crno tržište.