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I believe it. There once was a time, that may or may not be a memory, where the bartender would serve you if you could walk up to the bar and order. You also needed money, but a bit of bartering with scrounged flotsam from the quay could cover costs.
FASD is also a huge issue and the effect it’s having on society is both insanely clear and very visible.
smh children these days have no constitution and can’t handle their alcohol.
Okay, so you’re going to ban targeted marketing and online advertising, right?
No?
Ah, so the plan is to introduce comprehensive support and counselling for stress and mental health issues in young people, meaning they won’t have to turn to these things to cope with their depressing, stressful lives?
No?
Ah, got you - you’re going to improve the individual lives and prospects of all citizens, creating a utopian nation, so they can each look forward to a healthy prosperous future and genuinely have nothing to worry about?
No?
no we gots to find money for tax cuts and also to buy more weapons and stuff.
Or how about investing in and restoring ‘third places’ like community centres where they can socialise without having to spend money?
Believe it or not, also no.
I have a bold strategy to dynamically do nothing about it at all.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The study, one of the largest of its kind by the World Health Organization (WHO), looked at 2021-22 data on 280,000 children aged 11, 13 and 15 from 44 countries who were asked about alcohol, cigarettes and vape usage.
Forty per cent of girls in England and Scotland had vaped before 15, and did so at a higher rate than countries such as France and Germany.
“Considering that the brain continues to develop well into a person’s mid-20s, adolescents need to be protected from the effects of toxic and dangerous products.
Unfortunately, children today are constantly exposed to targeted online marketing of harmful products, while popular culture, like video games, normalises them.”
“We’re seeing really high levels of early initiation into drinking amongst boys and girls in England,” Inchley said.
A government spokesperson said: “The health advice is clear: smoking, vaping and underage drinking can be damaging for young people and their development.
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We need to get them started earlier and catch up.
That’s because kids are legally allowed to drink at home after the age of 5. At 16 you can drink alcohol at a restaurant or pub with a meal so long as you’re with your parents. Only at 18, is there no restrictions to buying alcohol other than you’re not allowed to consume it in public.
I don’t think any 5-year-old is having a beer though
It’s illegal for a 5 year old to drink alcohol at their home. That’s why I said after the age of 5 which is the law. Plus I was making a joke which seems to have gone right over your sweet little head.
I challenge you to highlight the bit that was a joke because there was no joke you just made a stupid comment.
The fact that you can technically drink alcohol at 5 is in no way contributing to kids underage drinking because no 5-year-old is drinking alcohol. Underage drinking happens because idiot adults are buying kids alcohol it’s got nothing to do with the drinking age laws. If they increase the drinking age to 21 like in the United States it would have literally no difference
That was a joke?
It went over my head too.
You can consume in public, just not in alcohol free zones. The zones are generally city/town centres where there are usually places licensed to serve alcohol. Everywhere else you can drink as you please as long as you don’t get too drunk.
Oh good they blamed video games. I was worried that we had evolved as a culture now and had stopped doing that, thankfully not.
It’ll be a sad day when GTA isn’t blamed for some murder. Or indeed anything at all.
Video games normalize drinking? Well that’s a new one. Final Fight & Tekken normalized eating whole chickens out of trashcans… how long until an article blames them for homelessness?
Definetaly the video games, not TV or the shelves covered in brightly coloured alcopops with names directly marketed at kids.
I didn’t even know you could ferment children into alcohol.
No shit tbh, most of us UK folks often have our first drunk experience when we’re like in our early to mid teens and the normalisation and acceptance of alcohol has definitely impacted this. It’s kinda like most ppl don’t see anything wrong with it, despite giving kids alcohol can literally cause issues due to it.
Quite a different case on my behalf though as I was raised pretty strict in my household and wasn’t allowed any alcohol until in my mid teens due to how much alcoholism ran in the family and my parents being scared due to that plus the normalisation of it too, though didn’t prevent drinking outside of home with those really horrid k-cider cans and me taking alcohol from the fridge that they rarely drank (except beer and I couldn’t take it out otherwise shit would happen and it would be bad) and going out with friends with it.
I would drink too if I had to live on TERF island.
You say worst, they say best and neither side is wrong.
