What is the legal age for buying alcohol in Britain?

The legal age for selling alcohol in Britain is 18. However, under the guidance of parents, children over 5 years old can legally drink alcohol.

Moreover, shops or restaurants selling wine need to prevent warning signs in their stores to remind people under the age of 25 that they will be required to show their identity documents when buying wine; Counter staff need to receive training and know how to check consumer identity documents; Every time you sell wine, you need an English-speaking employee to supervise; Drinks cannot be sold separately.

The British drink 775 cups (500 ml each) of beer a year; The per capita annual consumption of spirits above 40 degrees is about 15.5 liters; British people drink the most kinds of wine together, and Britain can be called the "most drinkable" country in the world.

According to the survey, there are nearly 400,000 children aged 1 1 5 in Britain every week, and nearly half of them drink alcohol more than once a week.

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In Britain, wine has always been very cheap. Many low-income Britons like to drink apple beer which is cheaper than mineral water.

There is a joke in Britain that if the country wants to ban British people from drinking, parliamentarians will take the lead in protesting.

In 20 10, the British government proposed a bill to set a minimum price for wine to combat the binge drinking culture.

Eric Appleby, head of the British non-governmental anti-alcoholism organization "Pay attention to drinking", told the Global Times reporter that wine culture does not mean drinking too much, and British people can drink more tea and coffee when they are tired. After all, the current situation does not allow Chinese people to anesthetize themselves with alcohol.

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Phoenix. Com- A 92-year-old woman in Britain was refused to buy alcohol because she could not prove that she was 18 years old.

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Phoenix. A Chinese restaurant in Britain has been re-examined for selling alcohol to teenagers.

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World Wide Web-British people have a family tradition of refusing to drink to drinkers.