Re: Underage drinking.

Ron Hunter <rphunter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Emma Pease wrote:
In article <Xns997A6D1D3A134johnszalayattnet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John
Szalay wrote:
"Fat Sam" <samandjanetknox@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:clnqi.3593$ph7.243@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

The main protagonists are all 17 years and younger if I understand
correctly. Yet, they all sloshed back a fair amount of wine and
firewhiskey (which I always imagine as being stronger than regular
whiskey). I know she lives in Scotland now, but are we absolutely
certain JKR isn't part Irish?



Remember
In the Wizarding world you come of age at 17..


Just because the western world uses 21 as the drinking age now does
NOT mean that is proper for everyone.

As others have pointed out 21 is the US age. Western Europe tends to
be lower (and places like Iran and Saudi Arabia ban it completely).

I took a look at the WHO 2004 report
http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/global_status_report_20
04_overview.pdf

per capita
USA - 8.51 litres
UK - 10.39 litres

However the UK has a 12% abstainer rate and the USA has 33.9%
abstainer rate (among adults) which means the per capita per drinker
will be different from the above. Unfortunately the heavy drinker
stats use different definitions of heavy drinking for the UK and the
US (the UK comes out worst if you ignore the definitional difference).
Alcohol dependence is 4.7% in the UK and 7.7% in the USA but the
definitions are again different.

Plenty of more grist at the report.

Emma


I question their abstainer rates for the US. Perhaps I only see the
non-abstainers, but when I eat out, I see most people with alcohol, to
the point of near 90%. Maybe the people who don't drink just eat at
home.


Baptists in the US are a large religeous denomination who are supposed to
be teetotal, but there are jokes about them avoiding eachother in liquor
stores, etc. I expect that many self report as teetotal but aren't.
.

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