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The problem of underage drinking has been in the news recently. What does the law say about this issue?<\/em><\/p>\n First of all, why is underage drinking dangerous?<\/strong><\/p>\n Alcohol is dangerous for people of all ages in many ways.<\/p>\n Overindulgence can lead to fatal accidents (from car crashes to falls to drowning), or kill people outright from excessive alcohol in their systems.<\/p>\n Because alcohol impairs judgement, it can lead to unsafe sexual behaviour, aggressive or violent conduct or risky actions that result in…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The problem of underage drinking has been in the news recently. What does the law say about this issue? First of all, why is underage drinking dangerous? Alcohol is dangerous for people of all ages in many ways. Overindulgence can lead to fatal accidents (from car crashes to falls to drowning), or kill people outright […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":183420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7943,6393,4706,724,257,10967,254,37811],"class_list":["post-183419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drinking","tag-legal","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-rules","tag-south-africa-today","tag-underage"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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