What don’t they know about?
The survey revealed that there are some common misconceptions among young people about drinking alcohol. For example:
- Only 68% of the young people in the UK knew that 18 is the legal age to buy alcoholic drinks from a pub, bar or café, and 2% less knew that 18 is also the legal age to buy them from a shop or supermarket.
- The top top three dangers those surveyed associated with drinking alcohol regularly were:
- Getting addicted to alcohol
- Getting liver damage
- Going into a coma
- These are all very serious risks, but they are much less common in their age group than having accidents resulting in facial injuries, broken limbs having unsafe sex or sex they later regret, etc.
- 12% thought that ‘only people who are about 30 or older can get addicted to alcohol’.
