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December 20th 2005, 12:39 PM
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About 4 years ago they lowered the minimium age to 18 here in New Zealand. But now that we've got a drinking problem they want to raise it back to 21 despite the an OECD survey that says the reason for our problem is not our age limit (other countries with the same and lower limit have less of a problem), that the real cause of the problem is due to our attitude towards alcohol. Alcohol is in pur culture too much and in the wrong ways. Point of case: teenagers here have parties where they deliberately drink so much they spew and getting that drunk is considered a good thing by them and their mates. And to make it worse this is early in the party and then they continue to drink.