Age at first drink, a new study

Kelowna
Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:57:36 +0000

I do not buy it. It is all cultural…
I grew up with wine with dinner. At some point (and I really do not remember when) my parents started to give me wine diluted with water for bigger occasions. Then it was Sunday dinners. It was absolutely normal, it was the drink I had to wash down my potatoes! I probably had my 100% wine when I was 16 or so.
To this day I HATE hard alcohol and do know my wine! I am not an alcoholic by any means, the fact that I drink it several times a week (if not daily) does not make me one.
It is all in your culture…
I will definitely have my kids drink wine (right now they are refusing due to the huge pressure coming from school about alcohol being poisonous) before they leave for college.
A glass of wine does not make you drunk neither makes you an alcoholic!!!