Young Australians are drinking less

比起pub,bar會提供更多種類、更優質的酒精飲品,但價格也會更高。

比起pub,bar會提供更多種類、更優質的酒精飲品,但價格也會更高。 Source: Pixabay (Cretaive Commons)

Recent research has provided yet more evidence that teen drinking in Australia is in steep decline. We first summarised this trend in 2015, and subsequent surveys have shown that the decline has continued. In the Deakin study, the proportion of adolescents (average age 14) reporting past-month alcohol use fell from 45% in 1999 to 25% in 2015.



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