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BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — The next “happy hour” in the summer capital may no longer accommodate young adults should a new liquor code that was guided by the unhealthy effects of intoxication becomes a city ordinance.
Baguio’s medical community is supporting a new liquor code that raises the legal drinking age from the current 18 to 23, or even 25, in order to spare 46,000 youth as of this year—as well as the projected 197,000 age 23 and below by 2050—from medical and social ailments attributed to alcohol consumption.
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Dr. Donnabel Tubera Panes, Baguio’s chief epidemiologist, said providing the youth of this “legal protection” would stave off very early indoctrination to beer or wine, allow the brains of adolescents and young adults to biologically mature, and discourage a lifestyle that would give them chronic ailments associated with alcohol by the time they reach 65.FEATURED STORIES
