[steven]

I wonder if the fact that these statistics contain people from the age of 15 alters the 'reality'. In other words, I've heard that in some European countries the legal drinking age is much younger than in places like Japan or America. So I wonder what these stats would look like if they checked consumption of alcohol per capita of the legal drinking age of each country. Not that my thinking isn't flawed either.... I mean, RickOShay pointed out that underage drinking is a common occurance.