WHEN children are surrounded almost everywhere by pubs and adverts for beer, and they see adults spend most of their leisure time drinking, can you really blame them for wanting to drink?

The very livelihood of every corner shop is threatened by the big supermarkets.

What happens if a shopkeeper refuses to sell a teenager a four-pack?

Will a gang smash his windows in or steal things. Will he lose customers. Will he be threatened?

I'm afraid banning the sale of alcohol never worked during the US Prohibition - people just carried on drinking in illegal drinking dens and gangsters took over the trade.

If someone bans you from doing something, will you try and get round the ban?

Would a teenager - by robbing people, perhaps?

R J Hudson

Kent Court

Bolton