So, a 5 year study was done to find that teen drinkers get their booze from adults

[sniffa]

That's right, a 5 year study to show that underage imbibers' alcohol originated with adults. I could have told them that. :eyes:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iqcz4qefFuB-WzZl_dobVvodK-zwD91HHARO0

[sasquatch]

1. Boy the department of stopping fun must REALLY be working overtime

:eyes:

[mainegreen]

2. What's the other option?

These kids brewed it themselves?

:crazy:

[sniffa]

5. My guesses

Fake ID's (which probably involved an adult) and non-carding stores. The latter was rare when I was growing up, but once in a blue moon in it happened. They mention that 4% steal it from their parents.

We had to use older cousins and the local drunk(s) to procure our booze.

[petronius]

6. Sounds plausible - some of those playhouses are easily big enough to hide a still

:)

[RaVeN_MeaD]

3. It took them 5 years to figure that out? Sad, Sad, Sad

[unpossibles]

4. after 5 years, they could buy their own! nt

[AlCzervik]

7. no shit? I still remember the name of my first buyer, thanks Richie you crazy bastard.

Bargain spot packy in west Medford.

And in other news, the first pack of cigarettes i ever had was from my Dad's carton of Marlboro's.

[bicentennial_baby]

8. My parents' cigs actually delayed my own...

They smoked Salem Ultra Light 100s... :puke:

[AlCzervik]

10. blech, my friend Kathy's mom used to suck down the Kool's, one after the other.

[sniffa]

12. Ahhhh, Meffa

:loveya:

[hedgehog]

9. Well, I'll play devil's advocate and say that before this study

everyone knew that kids get their alcohol from adults. The difference is that now we know how often this happens and how often it involves abusing alcohol.


I'd like to see a study of attitudes about alcohol, because what one person calls abuse another calls having a good time. For example, one family serves a glass of wine with a meal. Another thinks it normal to get buzzed four nights a week. Are you going to tell the first family it's ok to serve their minors and the second that it's not?

[lost-in-nj]

11. They could have called me

in the first year

I would have told them the same thing
geesshhhhhh

no one calls me for an opinion


:shrug:



lost

[RevolutionaryActs]

13. Duuuuuuuuude. How spoiled are they?

I made my own bathtub gin when I was youngin'! :eyes:






:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[sasquatch]

16. So that's how it started for you

:rofl:

[RevolutionaryActs]

19. Ok, not really.

I don't like gin. It tastes like how I imagine perfume/cologne would. Ickies.









It was really moonshine. :hide:

[sniffa]

20. Gin tastes like a christmas tree on fire

:puke:

That's why I drink vodka martinis. :D

:hi:

:loveya:

[RevolutionaryActs]

21. LOL! Yeah, that's about it.

:rofl:



Hello deary. :loveya:

[bicentennial_baby]

22. Noooo, it tastes like Christmas!

Juniper berries! :9

Gin and tonic with Lemon :bounce:

[jane_pippin]

14. As opposed to who, babies? The magic booze fairy?

A mystical river that flows freely with jagermiester and nite train?

A wish granting monkey-paw?

A centaur whose nipples produce milwaukee's best and when you squeeze them just so milwaukee's best comes out?

What the hell.

[KamaAina]

15. At last, we know why it's called "The Beast"

A centaur whose nipples produce milwaukee's best and when you squeeze them just so milwaukee's best comes out?

:rofl:

[jane_pippin]

17. Just thank your lucky stars you didn't have to learn the hard way.

:wow:


:toast:

[Fox Mulder]

18. They wasted five years on that study?

I could've told them all they needed to know in thirty seconds.