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View Poll Results: Should 16/17-year-olds be allowed to buy soft (or harder) alcoholic drinks?
Yes to WKD (since it's mostly under 18s who drink it anyway) but no to beers/wine 4 30.77%
Yes to WKD (since it's mostly under 18s who drink it anyway) but no to beers/wine
4 30.77%
Yes to anything at all from wine downwards 0 0%
Yes to anything at all from wine downwards
0 0%
Yes to either of those but only within extreme limits (i.e., only one or two items per person) 0 0%
Yes to either of those but only within extreme limits (i.e., only one or two items per person)
0 0%
Only within a few weeks of their 18th birthday 0 0%
Only within a few weeks of their 18th birthday
0 0%
Nah - should be 18, just as with everything else alcoholic 9 69.23%
Nah - should be 18, just as with everything else alcoholic
9 69.23%
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Old 03-10-2020, 09:23 PM #1
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Default Should 16/17-year-olds be allowed to buy soft alcoholic drinks?
And by that I mean the sort of drinks they're allowed to drink in pubs so far as a legal adult's with them (most especially ciders) or should the purchase of any kind of alcoholic drink be reserved for over 17s?
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It should stay as it is. I think a lot of people under 18 would act a bit too erratic if they were freely allowed to purchase alcohol in my opinion. I think the age restriction for energy drinks is something I don’t really agree with though.
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Alcopops?
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Voted yes to alcopops. Its a quick buzz that soon wears off.
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I said no. Alcohol is alcohol
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I said no. Alcohol is alcohol
And there’s not much in the way of a lower age cap of its consumption in general so it’s not as if you actually have to be 18 to drink it.
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I’d say yes for alcopops and ciders.
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I’d say yes for alcopops and ciders.
I agree on the alcopops. But cider can be lethal. So its a no to that. X
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Voted yes to alcopops. Its a quick buzz that soon wears off.
Well, all alcohol is a buzz that soon wears off.
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Well, all alcohol is a buzz that soon wears off.
Yes I just meant Wkd is only weak. I can drink it like pop and be barely affected. X
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I don't think they should be able to buy them but should be given the chance to try alcohol at home, it's not a big deal until they're sneaking around and binge drinking in a car park which won't be as tempting if they can just have a cider with dinner in the house without a big deal being made out of it.
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I don't think they should be able to buy them but should be given the chance to try alcohol at home, it's not a big deal until they're sneaking around and binge drinking in a car park which won't be as tempting if they can just have a cider with dinner in the house without a big deal being made out of it.
They're allowed to do that anyway.
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They're allowed to do that anyway.
Yes but so many parents are against it and it creates an unhealthy attitude
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Bit of a baffling idea tbh to treat some drinks differently. Wkd is the same strength as a lot of lagers and ales and most ciders are stronger
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...‘ they're allowed to drink in pubs so far as a legal adult's with them‘...this is the thing and crux really...specifically allowed with a meal when an adult has made the decision...as oppose to...yeah, go buy and consume what you want, the law says so...
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