HEC/News: Focus shifts to underage drinking

Focus shifts to underage drinking
Honolulu Advertiser (HI) February 27, 2005
By Michael Tsai, Staff Writer

"...A suggestion to ban alcohol sales on the University of Hawai'i campus
has been gaining momentum. So has the so-called "Use It and Lose It" bill,
now being considered at the Legislature, which would require judges to
suspend or delay driver's licenses of people under 21 convicted of illegal
possession of liquor...

"...the current push to address underage drinking is partly a response to
the dramatic increase in people killed due to drunken driving two years
ago (a 53 percent increase over 2002) and partly a result of continuous
effort by government, private organizations and concerned individuals to
educate the public..."

Full article available at http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Feb/27/ln/ln05p.html.

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