The meat of the article is after
The research that’s raising eyebrows comes from Japan, Taiwan and Australia.
Is it any worse for them than soda?
Paying a guy $30 to buy you $60 of Clausthaler and Cranberry juice mixed with mint
Bowdring says there’s emerging evidence that nonalcoholic beverages may prime kids to switch to the real thing.
From the emerging evidence cited
However, concerns that non-alcoholic beverage use would lead to increased alcohol use were not supported because alcohol flavoured non-alcoholic beverage consumption usually started after adolescents began consuming alcohol.
In Taiwan, where the legal drinking age is 18, high schoolers who said they drank nonalcoholic beverages were more likely than those who didn’t to express an intention to drink alcohol.
This article seems to me to be completely reversing correlation and causation. Isn’t it far more likely that young people who are more interested in drinking alcohol are more likely to drink non alcoholic beer etc?
huh, in my country this is already the law. given our culture of drinking, i really don’t think it works lol. like, if a kid is bothering to try to get ahold of non-alchoholic beer they’re already having that behaviour modeled to them and thats the part that actually matters
