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Worth noting that France has no legal alcohol consumption age, and Germany has it set to 14 if a guardian is present.

Alcohol is deeply embedded in French and German culture (and surely other nations) - I have seen a 3 year old sipping some beer in Munich in a beer house. Amusingly, neither of the countries really has binge drinking culture as the UK or US has so

>but we set drinking ages for a reason

is not really true...




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