A University of Minnesota study looking at underage access to alcohol reports that almost one in five young men will buy alcohol for a stranger when approached to do so outside of a liquor store. Although this is illegal, obviously if so many will do this for complete strangers, then the threat of arrest is not much of a deterrent. Education and enforcement are needed, and we need to protect our kids better from such easy access to alcohol.
In the last 6 years, during which time the beer and liquor industries practiced marketing "self regulation" the number of alcohol commercials seen by the average teen went up from 216 to 301 per year. Find out who the worst offenders are...