Controlling teenagers' drinking: Effects of a community-based prevention project

Underage alcohol sales in community sporting clubs

“…Alcohol sales did vary according to whether or not the bar staff requested age identification, specifically purchase rates were lower (allowing for low counts), highlighting the importance of compliance with this guideline. Although some studies have noted that RSA training had no effect on requesting age identification and any effects were short lived unless supported by management commitment , evidence from other studies indicate responsible server training programs in combination with other activities increase requests for age identification and reduce underage alcohol sales . The present findings indicate a small proportion of clubs did take the matter of age identification seriously.…”

“…Despite efforts to ensure compliance, alcohol is often sold to underage adolescents at retail outlets. International studies show this is often because of age identification not being requested and in some cases being ignored . An important methodology for monitoring compliance with underage alcohol sales involves purchase observation testing or ‘mystery shopper’ technique .…”

What is going on in underage drinking? Reflections on Finnish European school survey project on alcohol and other drugs data 1999–2015

“…Hence, an overall devaluation of alcohol in this age group probably reduces the availability of alcoholic beverages [35]. Formal policy measures have most likely had a key position here: checking IDs has been tightened on several occasions since the late 1990s [36], local level preventive work has focused increasingly on youth [36] and regulations for targeting minors in alcohol marketing have become more restrictive [37]. As for point (ii), it seems that the protective effect of interaction with parents regarding especially heavy episodic drinking has become more important over time.…”

Midstream social marketing intervention to influence retailers’ compliance with the minimum legal drinking age law

“…However, the potential of MLDA law is far from exhausted. Studies continually document the ease with which underage youth around the world obtain alcohol in commercial settings despite the legal drinking age (Dent et al, 2005;Gosselt et al, 2007;Huckle et al, 2007;Paschall et al, 2007;Romano et al, 2007;Rossow et al, 2008;Geidne and Eriksson, 2009;Holmila et al, 2010;Gosselt et al, 2011;Schelleman-Offermans et al, 2012;Mulder et al, 2013;Schelleman-Offermans et al, 2014). In some trial-purchase studies, minors succeeded in buying alcohol in more than half of all purchase attempts (Rossow et al, 2008).…”