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Show School TN and V) Home cp J by Dr. Daryl J. McCarty -- ff Executive Secretary Utah Education Association ww If there's one thing a student stud-ent can do without in school, it's a hangover. Nevertheless, according to a confidential survey made by the Utah State Board of Education, youngsters are still trying alcohol, but, a fewer number of them. Here are some of the Endings End-ings from the 1975 poll: 50 percent of the 2,279 students polled said they had never experimented with alcohol. In the latest study, 52.5 percent of the students said they could get alcohol" with no difficulty." A total of 9.4 percent of the students classified people they personally know who use alcohol as being physically dependent on the stuff, or "hooked." At what age would you say some Utah youngsters begin using alcohol? The poll showed that 10.2 percent of the students first experimented with or used alcohol before age 12. Quentin Kolb, director of Odyssey House of Utah, expresses ex-presses concern about alcoholic alco-holic products that are being marketed to appeal to young drinkers. One of these drinks is a milk-based, fruit-flavored beverage that has been on the market only a few months. These drinks contain 15 per cent alcohol, and sales are booming, according to trade journals. Question: Can liquor sales be aimed at young people just reaching the legal age for drinking without increasing the number of underage drinkers? That may be an important one to schools, parents and students in the coming months if we want the per cent of those not experimenting experiment-ing with alcohol to increase. A student can't learn much with thunder of a "morning-after" "morning-after" ache in the head. |