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Asturias was Spain's last community with a drinking age of 16 years. The new law brings the drinking age into line with the rest of Spain, with the exception of Balearic Islands where no purchase age limit is set. [166] As of December 2015, Portugal harmonized its minimum drinking age to 18 years across all beverage types. Previously the ...
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The legal minimum drinking age in the United States is 21 years old, but every country has their own unique liquor laws. Some travel destinations even have different requirements based on what ...
The current purchase age of 21 remains a point of contention among many Americans, because of it being higher than the age of majority (18 in most states) and higher than the purchase ages of most other countries. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act is also seen as a congressional sidestep of the Tenth Amendment.
Savanta’s research shows among Europe’s 18-34-year-olds, 63% are spending less on alcohol purchases in supermarkets, while 67% are drinking less when they go to restaurants and bars.
In particular, alcohol laws set the legal drinking age, which usually varies between 15 and 21 years old, sometimes depending upon the type of alcoholic drink (e.g., beer vs wine vs hard liquor or distillates). Some countries do not have a legal drinking or purchasing age, but most countries set the minimum age at 18 years. [1]
The NHS guidance states that lower risk of cancer is one of the long term benefits of drinking less alcohol. Factbox-Countries' guidance on alcohol consumption Skip to main content
Worldwide consumption in 2019 was equal to 5.5 litres of pure alcohol consumed per person aged 15 years or older. [6] This is a decrease from the 5.7 litres in 2010.