More on the Failure of European Approaches to Youth Drinking

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<p><a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061117/hl_afp/afplifestylebritain_061117192959[/url]”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061117/hl_afp/afplifestylebritain_061117192959&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I would dispute your thread title. I believe it should be something more like “More on the Failure of the British Drinking Culture, Specifically regarding underage binge drinking”.</p>

<p>Britain has always had many of these problems, both in reference to drinking and other youth issues. I think you’d need to examine it in a broader context to definitely say that this sheds any light on the overall European approach.</p>

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<p>I didn’t see it in the article, but I assume that these are mostly white, fraternity boys in large universities.</p>

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<p>Actually no, its everyone, or everyone young. I think the article might have noted the rise in alcohol consumption of young women.</p>

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<p>The article was pretty uninformative. It was very poorly written and didn’t really get to a point.</p>

<p>Apparently a lot of young people in GB drink…wow, what a shock.</p>

<p>It only briefly touched upon the extension of pub hours and the controversy surrounding that decision. There was little mention of the culture the early pub closings had created and yet, it seemed throughout the article it was being implied that the boozing culture was at fault…</p>

<p>Overall, just more neo-prohibitionist propaganda. Fluff article noting a couple of statistics with little real discussion of the implications, then posted under an alarmist subject heading…</p>

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<p>"I would dispute your thread title. I believe it should be something more like “More on the Failure of the British Drinking Culture, Specifically regarding underage binge drinking”.</p>

<p>I already posted stats from the EU showing higher rates of youth heavy and binge drinking, and higher rates of alcoholism, cirrhosis, liver cancer, and early alcohol-related deaths in virtually every EU country, from France to Sweden, Greece to Denmark.</p>

<p>No prohibitionist here; you must have me confused with someone else.</p>