THE Health Minister, Nicola Roxon, has rejected a call from the Prime Minister's advisory body on drugs to consider lifting the drinking age.
The Australian National Council on Drugs declared that there was evidence that lifting the legal drinking age did decrease the number of young people drinking alcohol and being harmed as a result.
The council said there was a need to ''explore the options'' to break the connection between the drinking age, getting a full driver's licence and leaving school, which all occurred around the 18th birthday. Their verdict follows calls for the drinking age to be lifted to 19. . . . . . .
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