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Poll: age limit for drinking alcohol

What should be age limit for drinking alcohol?

  • 7 yrs

    Votes: 13 12.3%

  • 10 yrs

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • 12 yrs

    Votes: 2 1.9%

  • 14 yrs

    Votes: 2 1.9%

  • 16 yrs

    Votes: 19 17.9%

  • 18 yrs

    Votes: 49 46.2%

  • 21 yrs

    Votes: 13 12.3%

  • 25 yrs

    Votes: 3 2.8%

  • 30 yrs

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • 120 yrs

    Votes: 3 2.8%
  • Total voters
    106
Both of my daughters have been given diluted wine or beer, on a few special occasions, since they were old enough to express an interest in alcohol. My 19 year old, as a legal adult, drinks an occasional cider but has a generally responsible attitude to alcohol.

I believe that the main reason we have so many binge drinkers in the UK most people are not exposed to alcohol in a controlled way when they are young. The attitude is very different from the attitude towards alcohol in mainland Europe where kids are allowed small amounts of alcohol with Sunday lunch.

IMHO introducing kids to alchol in a controlled way does two things:

1) It puts them off alcohol as they won't like the taste.
2) It demystifies alcohol.
 
Multivac said:
Both of my daughters have been given diluted wine or beer, on a few special occasions, since they were old enough to express an interest in alcohol. My 19 year old, as a legal adult, drinks an occasional cider but has a generally responsible attitude to alcohol.

I believe that the main reason we have so many binge drinkers in the UK most people are not exposed to alcohol in a controlled way when they are young. The attitude is very different from the attitude towards alcohol in mainland Europe where kids are allowed small amounts of alcohol with Sunday lunch.
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Both my brother and I have been given minute quantities of alcohol on special occasions since we were approximately 12, like most of our friends in France and Switzerland. I enjoy the occasional beer and good wine with a meal, my brother started drinking irresponsibly from age 18, and it got worse and worse. Binge drinking and alcohol related problems do exist in mainland Europe ...


IMHO introducing kids to alchol in a controlled way does two things:

1) It puts them off alcohol as they won't like the taste.
2) It demystifies alcohol.
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For some, not all, unfortunately.
 
And wonderful Flo was one of the people that my daughter has shared a glass of wine with. But by the time Flo shared that wine with our daughter she was a University student in Grenoble studying abroad for a year.

Just a little update Flo: She's getting married this July and is about to graduate from UCLA with a masters in public policy (or something like that).

I hope all goes well for you. Meeting you in Geneva remains one of the high points of our European trip.

-Dave
 
davefoc said:
And wonderful Flo was one of the people that my daughter has shared a glass of wine with. But by the time Flo shared that wine with our daughter she was a University student in Grenoble studying abroad for a year.

Just a little update Flo: She's getting married this July and is about to graduate from UCLA with a masters in public policy (or something like that).

I hope all goes well for you. Meeting you in Geneva remains one of the high points of our European trip.

-Dave
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Thanks for the update, please convey my congratulations and best wishes to her. I hope she has plans to introduce her husband to Europe and its wines some day, Vic's family and I will be only too happy to help !

Note that you're welcome too ... ;)
 
Dragoonster said:
No. $150 a month isn't a big change. To poor people.
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Yes, it is.

LOL. Even in America this is not so. And so much more not so in other countries.
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In the USA this may not be so, but it is in many other countries.

Just to check/verify on your own--you should go into an ER and request a prescription for a drug that would make you not drink alcohol.
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I am not talking about a drug that makes me not drink alcohol, but if such a drug exists I could very likely get it for much less than $150 a month, should I need it. It is not something the ER is for.

And let's just say that no, you don't have "insurance", which costs money.
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I don't live in the US, so my health insurance is way less than $150 a month, it is mandatory, and it covers all psychiatric drugs.

(have you any idea of Chinese mining?)
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There is plenty wrong with Chinese mining, but I am still pretty sure miners aren't allowed to get drunk on the job.

There are no Muslims that drink alcohol, ever.
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There are unfortunately plenty of Muslims who drink alcohol, but that does not change the fact that these are very poor examples with which you try to support your argument.
 
18 would be my guess. If people are going to drink poisonous, brain-damaging, highly addictive chemicals, then let them get started, addicted, dead, and buried as soon as (but not before) they've had a chance to rationally think better of it.

No use dragging it out more than necessary. the doper life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone.
 
This is really dependent on culture. I voted 18 because that's what I think it should be in my country.
 
Toontown said:
18 would be my guess. If people are going to drink poisonous, brain-damaging, highly addictive chemicals, then let them get started, addicted, dead, and buried as soon as (but not before) they've had a chance to rationally think better of it.
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Alcohol, highly addictive?
 
godless dave said:
That article doesn't say it's highly additive, it says some people can get addicted to it.

Cocaine is highly addictive. Nicotine is highly addictive. Alcohol is no more addictive than gambling.
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Keep telling yourself that, and you'll never get addicted to alcohol, no matter how much you drink. And you'll never get addicted to gambling, no matter how much you gamble. And you'll always be able to quit, no matter how much you don't quit.
 
Toontown said:
Keep telling yourself that, and you'll never get addicted to alcohol, no matter how much you drink. And you'll never get addicted to gambling, no matter how much you gamble. And you'll always be able to quit, no matter how much you don't quit.
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You do understand that some substances are more addictive than others, right?
 
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