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Currently, alcohol prohibition is enforced in many Muslim majority countries, in parts of India, and in some Indigenous Australian communities and certain northern communities in the Canadian territories. [1] They can range from complete ban all the way to bans on sales during certain times. [2] Afghanistan [3]
The majority of countries have a minimum legal drinking age of 18. [2] The most commonly known reason for the law behind the legal drinking age is the effect on the brain in adolescents. Since the brain is still maturing, alcohol can have a negative effect on the memory and long-term thinking.
In addition to having the world's highest drinking age (a contentious honor we share with 12 other countries), the United States also has very strict laws on public drinking. Each state is allowed ...
In the United States, the national legal drinking age is 21 years old and has been so since 1984. However, according to information provided by the Alcohol Policy Information System — a project ...
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Beer (and beer-like happoshu) are the most popular alcoholic drink in Japan, accounting for nearly two thirds of the 9 billion liters of alcohol consumed in 2006. [6]Japan's domestic consumption of the total 187.37 million kiloliter global beer market in 2012 was about 5.55 million kiloliters or about 3.0%. [7]
A legal drinking age for the buying or consuming of alcohol is in place in many of the world's countries, typically with the intent to protect the young from alcohol-related harm. [9] This age varies between countries; for example, the legal drinking age for Australia is 18, whereas the legal drinking age in the United States is 21. [9]