> It a nice country I live in: > Last couple of weeks it was several times in the news that a bunch of > yougsters attended a drinking party and went on untill they pass out. > Kids of 12 years old. Permanent brain damage. > > I would almost opt for the Scandinavian mechanism: extremely strict and > horrible expensive.
In Scandinavia they just drink a lot of homedistilled stuff. This isn't checked, so the numbers don't account for it. I truely belive the amount of drinking is connected to other things then wether it is legal ( /expensive). Things like the duration of night and the welfare of the people is far more important. People in Scandinavia are (on average) happy in the summer, and get depressed in the winter. This resuls in a drinking problem in the winter. Kids can get to alcohol, wether they are allowed or not. It's the parents who are responsible for the drinking habits of kids. A parent hosting a party for kids with alcohol is responsible for the brain damage in all the kids. It's just a little hard to check. It is becoming a kind of fashion to drink till you drop at low ages (it's called something like "comatosedrinking"). Neil -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
