Germany: Drinking booze at 14? | DW News
Did you know you can drink from age 14 in Germany? Well, politicians in Germany want to change this and raise the drinking age to 18. Germany is one of the top consumers of alcohol worldwide.
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17 comments
Alcohol is bad for you😮
Very sad. Wine, beer etc. alcohol is
POISON
Still drinking warm beer?? 🍺😊😊
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As if laws stop people from drinking. We had the heavy booze back when I was 14,15 despite it being illegal.
I'm actually okay with teaching my kids about alcohol and letting them have sips of what's good and what's swill once they're interested in it. Better I'm there than they learn it on their own with worse results, especially when the shackles are off in college. However, I'm also with the science on this one in that brains aren't fully formed until their 20's and alcohol probably affects that formation and teaching them how to gracefully bow out of a drink in social situations is also part of what needs teaching. I'd be curious what Germany ends up choosing as the age limit.
I don't think 18 would be possible to get through in a law. 16 is the age when you can drink beer etc ( softer alcoholic drinks) on your own and buy these. 18 is for wine, wodka etc. . Jumping directly to 18 is a drastic change.
And who are the others 9 countrys
When you make something illegal people want it more, and making it illegal isn't going to stop any teenager.
Prefer beer than coca cola
German drinking habits are moderate, despite the comparatively high rate of alcohol-consumption. We are #5 in consumption, yet rarely crack top 50 in alcoholism.There are very few "heavy drinkers" in this land of beer, in fact. Same in France, the land of wine, where laws are similarly lax. In the USA or Russia, lands of liquor, it is much worse, despite restrictive laws. Curiously, it is also worse in some countries, where people drink more beer and wine, but have restrictive laws and high taxes, such as Sweden or Australia. Moderate drinking is part of our culture and not a problem. Leave it be.
Heroin, Cocaine, LSD, MDMA, DMT, Psylocibin and Ketamin all have real medicinal value. Alcohol has zero medicinal value.
Just look at data about countries where are there is a drinking ban under 18 years old… The ban didn't solve the problem..
Alcohol consumption is very heavily dependent on socio-economic factors and restrictive legislation tend to have the opposite effect of what is intended.
The most dangerous alcohol consumption model is when people drink excessively, i.e. "binge drinking", and when people consistently drink too much every day.
To diminish the first we should focus on more emotional education, starting with promoting same-age social activities from a young age (sports, hobbies, scouts etc) and developing an early awareness on the risks of drinking.
The second has more to do with stress and family habits, but also (again) limited knowledge about the health risk.
the drinking age is 5 in the UK
Alcohol shrinks your brain. You need your brain to think and build stuff. Does that make sense?
How about stop immigration instead?. Get your priorities in order.
When illegal ya will drink.
I was drinking since 14. When it was legal to drink lost a lot of interest..
But many I drank with long dead..
Irish and English people drink too much.🧐💁