Comments on: 2 Pints of Lager & an ASBO

By: simon

simon — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:10:01 +0000

maybe, just maybe, many of these kids get thier cigarettes on the black market?

maybe, just maybe they get their alcohol at home or steal it?

the idea of ‘dodgy small shops’ is a typical scapegoat – as a shop keeper we can be entrapped by the police and lose our livelihoods for selling alcohol and cigarettes to kids.

i dont understand why you have an issue with prosecuting parents of kids who are regularly found with alcohol – their children are their responsibility!

By: iain

iain — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:21:00 +0000

When i say secret i mean as stealthy as you were when your mum didn’t know you smoked.

By: iain

iain — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:16:08 +0000

Make getting drunk less fun for kids. Put something in turkey twizzlers that gives you the worlds worst hangovers even at the age 15 (I never used to get hangovers until i was 21ish) that would stop them!

As for smoking, i think they could try and maybe just remove the word from the dictionary, hide the packets from the shelves, and make people who smoke (like me) do it in secret, people would soon forget what they were.

By: Kitch

Kitch — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:10:03 +0000

That picture is ace, it should be used for advertising

By: Daniel Hoffmann-Gill

Daniel Hoffmann-Gill — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:07:04 +0000

Oh don’t start me on the demonizing and legislating of young people in the UK, as someone who works with young people in London and beyond the ability of law makers and politicians to not only misjudge and over state the situation beggers belief.

By: Richard Gadsden

Richard Gadsden — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:30:48 +0000

Why not simply require all off licences to check proof of age for all their customers. I’m sure my 90-year-old Grandma would happily get her pension book out when she wants her monthly bottle of sherry.

PS, if the whole chain lost their licence for a major breach, then the supermarkets and chain offies would all self-regulate. Ask Tesco how much money they’d lose if they had a three-month ban on selling alcohol.

By: Fulla

Fulla — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:43:24 +0000

How are they going to prosecute the parents when they are kids themselves?

While were at it lets make sex illegal too. Oh and being thick.

Oooh! A shiny fag packet! Byeeeee!!

By: Wibble HQ

Wibble HQ — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:25:23 +0000

Here here!

I am all in favour of raising the drinking age to 25. Problem is, this would be unfair to the decent 18-25 year olds who can actually have a drink without feeling the need to cave someones head in with a paving slab