Sale of alcohol
Sir,—The Laking report on alcohol and licensing laws raises some contentious issues. The suggestion that the minimum drinking age be lowered from 20 to 18 would be a retrograde step. To submit that this change will only legalise the status quo is to look at the problem in a superficial way. There are problems of violence, crime and a high incidence of fatal road accidents associated with young people drinking. At present 18-year-olds drink because they can pass for 20. Lower the age to 18 and some 15 or 16-year-olds will be getting crapulous in pubs and driving with alcohol-induced bravado. For many of them drinking is a social ritual that helps them achieve acceptance by their peers. It will be fine to lower the drinking age only when our community is educated to drink responsibly—Yours, etc.,
J. BURT. July 6, 1988.
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