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I'm generally against the "banning" of things but the situation with kids and energy drinks at the moment is insane... they drink it by the boatload. My sister-in-law had a boyfriend a couple of years ago, who was told by a doctor that he was doing serious damage to a number of internal organs, by drinking 6 or 7 cans of monster a day. As in, he was actually developing slight jaundice. What the actual ****. And a several-can-a-day habit seems pretty common.

There's a little skate park next to our local playpark and it's constantly littered with nothing but energy drinks cans and bottles. Oh and ... the recent ASDA display stand for Call of Duty: Ghosts included a special offer on 4-packs of Monster. Sigh.

So I'm torn. On the one hand I sort of think kids need to be discouraged from wrecking their bodies. On the other hand, they are THEIR bodies to wreck if they want to... and is it really Morrisons' place to dictate this if it isn't a legal age restriction?

Which opens the question though; should there be a legal age restriction? I doubt there have been any studies into how damaging such high quantities of these drinks are but I'd wager that they're as harmful if not more harmful than cigarettes. Also, high-caffeine drinks are easily just as addictive as nicotine. So if they are just as harmful and just as addictive as cigarettes - why are cigarettes age restricted but not these drinks?

Hmh...