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Denmark?

• nolok 8y ago
  France. We have no law about age of consumption but we have a law about a minimal age of buying; it has almost no sanction though and the worst you risk in spending a few hours or a night in a "drunken" cell at the police station. On the other hand we do have strong sanction for selling to someone under the legal age. About the age of buying it used to be 16 years old but the law was changed to put it at 18 for liquors and hard alcohol back in 2009, since then most maps you can find on the internet about drinking age often put us at 18 but in reality it's still 16 for wine/beer/cider/... The change was to fight whisky/vodka/rhum/... binge drinking by high schoolers. (driving age is 18, or 16 is you're accompanied by an adult and passed a specific kind of driving permit)