Underage drinking.

The legal drinking age in Britain is 18. The actual drinking age is probably about 14.
Walk past any park on a friday night, and you can pretty much guarentee there will be a gang of teenagers, bottles alcohol in hand. As they get older, the park turns into their friends empty house when the parents are away; and the empty house finally turns into pub or club when they turn the legal age. (or when they are old enough to know where to obtain a fake i.d)

Obviously, the legal drinking age is there for a reason. But how many people can actually say they never touched a drop of alcohol untill they were 18? Not many.
It's not made any easier by the fact a lot of alcoholic drinks are made to taste like juice; making it easier to forget what you're actually drinking, and before you know it, you're ten drinks down and in a drunken stupor.

I'm not saying we should all embrace the fact there are hoards of fourteen year olds out on a friday night drinking themselves into oblivion, but what I do think, is that we need to accept the fact it's happening. Perhaps the more we try to drum it into kids how bad drinking is; the more we're just enticing them to rebel and drink.

Drinking is a form of socialising. I enjoy nothing more at the weekend, than sitting in a warm friendly pub with a group of mates having a drink.

Like I said, I'm not saying we should all let 14/15 year olds drink whenever and whatever they want, but perhaps we realise it's not really such a bad thing; after all, there is so much more wrong with the world than a few kids having a few swigs of buckfast on a weekend.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
Frank Sinatra.