Not sure what Snapple's doing in there.
Posted on 12/18/2004 6:52:05 PM PST by wagglebee
The percentage of teenage girls who drink alcoholic beverages is rising faster than that of boys, and on average the girls take their first drink at age 13, the American Medical Association said Thursday in reporting the findings of two surveys.
The AMA contends that a class of beverages informally known as "alcopops" is partly to blame, and it is warning doctors to educate teenagers about the dangers of such sweet drinks.
The polls indicate that teenage girls are most vulnerable to the marketing of the beverages, which contain 5 to 7 percent alcohol and have names like Rick's Spiked Lemonade, Doc Otis' Hard Lemon Flavored Malt Beverage, Mike's Hard Lemonade and Hooper's Hooch Lemon Brew.
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You got that right.
Oh, to be a kid again.
Not sure what Snapple's doing in there.
at least they're not hiding it in their closet like I did when I was 13.
Yep, when I was a teenager the girls resisted when you tried to get them drunk!
To show how hard difficult it is to pick out the alcopop from other drinks....
Lightweights. I started hitting the sauce at age 12. Of course, I had a valid excuse. Gerald Ford was President and Jimmy Carter followed him. I gave up the stuff 10 days before Reagan got inaugurated. :o)
But hasn't this been done before? Wine cooler anyone?
I remember getting drunk on peach shnapps at Girl Scout Camp. Of course, I was a Troop Leader at the time...(just kidding)...I was 13 and we hid the bottle in a teddy bear (with a zipper compartment).
Ah.. the old days.
But at least they're not smoking cigarettes.
And then there was Gallo Ripple.
The way society is going, I have a feeling that cigarettes are becoming harder for teens to get than booze.
I would hazard you are correct. Harder, my guess, to buy Marboros than to buy crack.
At the rate things are going, crack will be cheaper than cigarettes in a few years.
Whatever, you guys. I was at my favorite eatery tonight to get my salad to-go. There was this girl, maybe 22 or so, on her cell-phone, talking to her girlfriend, BRAGGING about how drunk she had been the night before. That wasn't the worst of it. Apparently oblivious of her surroundings, she began to describe waking up this morning to *puke* on her floor and the hunt was on to determine who's it was! It was a game to her. Gross, gross....
I keep thinking these *conversations* can't get any worse; but they do! By the time I left, my appetite was gone! I was sickened by her stupidity, lack of personal self-respect, or sense of shame! "The future of America" my husband says. I can't think of a word to describe this pitiful person and the future that awaits her.
LOL. Do you remember a cigarette brand called 'Eve' (kind of a cheaper, Virginia Slim knock off). They had a band of flowers printed on the filter...they were the smokes of choice of my schnapps friends and I back in my misguided youth.
I got drunk on peppermint schnapps ONCE, when I was 14, and once was plenty!
Thankfully, I can say I have never indulged in peppermint liquor of any variety. Sounds yucky.
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