Drinking age
Sir, —I agree with M. A. Hogan (January 19) in objecting to lowering the legal drinking age to 18. Surely we have enough damage in our society attributable to alcohol misuse without making the availability of alcohol easier to those under 20. Rather than increasing the consumption rate we should be encouraging moderation of use and creating an awareness of the damage caused by alcohol misuse — i.e. road toll, domestic violence, divorce rates, crime and financial distress — which touches all our' lives in some way. The Government made a positive move to keep the road toll down by introducing provisional driving licences and now Dr Bruce Gregory (Januaiy 12) suggests we lower the drinking age to 18. Is that not one step forward and two backwards?— Yours, etc., SUE SMITH, T.E.A.M. (Toward Ending Alcohol Misuse). January 20, 1988.
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