Legal drinking age
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The legal drinking age is the age at which a person can legally consume or purchase alcoholic beverages. These laws cover a wide range of issues and behaviors, addressing when and where alcohol can be consumed. The minimum age alcohol can be legally consumed can be different from the age when it can be purchased in some countries. These laws vary among different countries and many laws have exemptions or special circumstances. Most laws apply only to drinking alcohol in public places, with alcohol consumption in the home being mostly unregulated (an exception being the UK, which has a minimum legal age of five for supervised consumption in private places). Some countries also have different age limits for different types of alcoholic drinks.
See also
- Amethyst Initiative
- Alcohol consumption by youth in the United States
- National Minimum Drinking Age Act
- Alcoholism
- National Youth Rights Association
- Shoulder tap (alcohol)
- The Century Council
- Choose Responsibility
- Mature minor doctrine
- Youth
- Youth suffrage
- Youth rights
- Age of candidacy
- Legal drinking age controversy
- Smoking age
