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One of the most high-profile legislative initiatives of recent times is a project to ban the sale of alcoholic beverages to people under 21 years of age. The bill itself has already been submitted to the State Duma, and last week it was supported by Rospotrebnadzor. However, bloggers' opinions were divided

Age limit

Vladimir Gornitsky: “We can say with confidence that this law will not work in the foreseeable future. And then it’s somehow strange. At the age of 18 you are drafted into the army. In principle, a soldier’s task is to kill people if ordered. That is, you can kill, But you can't buy beer..."

The road to moonshine

Seryoga Zheleznodorozhnik: “They are leading young people to make moonshine. And then they will fight it.”

Bans won't help

Kirill Zhuravlev: “On our walls, in the passages, everything is covered with proposals for spice and methamphetamine. And they are trying to ban alcohol. Firstly, we need to sort things out with the officials so that they don’t show off, but get down to business - educating and educating young people. Bans won't help."

What will change?

Semyon Semenovich Gorbunkov: “If the proposed version of the law raises the prohibited age for drinking libations to 21 years, and today, now, this very minute, teenagers drink from the age of 10, then what will the formal change in the number change? There is no doubt that at your own wedding or “dump” In the army, will the eighteen-year-old hero of the occasion drink Narzan or Buratino lemonade?

We need to educate

vikt.ogorodov2015: “I wonder how their weddings will be held? In the USSR there were already alcohol-free weddings, the country could not survive this. We need to create conditions and educate, and not ban them. In southern countries they drink wine from the age of 10, but there is no alcoholism.”

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