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Be a Young persons Advocate for
Life-Health-Safety!
Baton Rouge City Council Meeting Plan to attend:
Wed February 25, 2004- 4pm
222 Saint Louis St. Room
364 Baton Rouge, LA 70802
Voters by Council District-2004 CCCC Poll of East Baton
Rouge
EBR
Poll Shows Voters Agree
the loophole is part of the underage drinking problem!
Effects of Excessive Drinking on Community
East Baton Rouge
Parish registered voters say that many factors contribute
a
lot or some to excessive drinking in our community
including…
People under 21 being allowed to go into bars
81%
The Baton Rouge City Council on
Wednesday can "Close the Loophole" in our drinking laws in
EBR.
The Legal Drinking Age is
21 yet underage drinking continues to be a serious problem in
baton rouge.
Up for public hearing and BR city council vote 2-25-04:
Councilman Benham's
Ordinance is one effort in many to reduce access and
harms related to
underage drinking. It is needed to close the
existing loophole that allows 18-20yr olds into bars where
more than half are drinking without a fake id (Harvard
College Alcohol Study 2002)
Results of the unenforceability of
the drinking law 21-
Many Students are reporting that
alcohol is easy to drink in bars without a fake ID.
Purchase and Pass renders our drinking law
virtually non-existent on Campus bars that are often
"packed"- the 21 and older simply go and purchase at the bar
"legally" and return to the area of the bar where
underage friends/dates are to "Pass Alcohol around" the bartender never
sees this- and the message to youth is simple we make laws
that we can't enforce. This is not the message we need
to send young people in this city or state. We need to
be clear, say what we mean, and mean what we say! 21 is the
law-and we are going to enforce it. That requires
keeping those under 21 out of bars.
We are a College Town, and Enforcing the Drinking Law of 21
should encouraged not discouraged!
Youth who don't drink alcohol before the age of 21 are 60%
less likely to become alcohol dependent over those who do
drink before 21. |
RESULTS of Underage Drinking and Access to
Alcohol
Alcohol is by far the most abused drug on by students at
LSU.
LSU 2002
Student Drug Use Which is true across the U.S.
LSU STUDENT'S UNDERAGE DRINKING
BEHAVIORS
Harvard School of Public Health, 2003 College Alcohol Study
6-12th Graders in
EBR Alcohol is most abused Drug.
Alcohol is the most abused drug in the U.S.
14.9 million were dependent on or abused alcohol but not
illicit drugs. Source:
2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
Double Click Graph.
Watch City
Council Meetings online each Wednesday at 4pm
Why is the Alcohol Industry Advocating for Underage
Drinking?
Reports of the Alcohol Lobby
(usually found working the legislature) now working here in
Baton Rouge, fighting hard against the Baton Rouge City
Council from doing the right thing?
Underage Drinking is Illegal!
That is not being "debated"!
The issue at hand is enforcing the
current law. When you consider this
report showing the Profits the Alcohol Industry reaps from
underage drinking, perhaps you will understand why the
Alcohol Lobby is advocating for those under 21 to continue
to have access to their product MONEY!
[i]
Wechsler, Henry, et al. “Trends in College Binge
Drinking During a Period of Increased Prevention
Efforts.” Journal of American College Health.
50, No. 5, (2002).
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Baton
Rouge Mandatory 21 alcohol ordinance Public Hearing
Underage Deaths of LSU Students Just in the 1st Semester of
this School year: