- The real legal drinking age is 22, but in the countryside the rules are more lax. However, there is strong social pressure against anyone younger than mid-late teens drinking – and basically the young person needs to look physically able to drink. Mostly it begins in the city when young kids get to college, and the countryside when young men begin their year in the army, or begin working.
- Women just do not drink as much as men, even at parties – as they tend to have the weight of caring for the entire family on their shoulders.
- Most anyone can go and buy alcohol, and often young children are sent to go purchase bottles for their parents or older siblings.
- Any drug, aside from alcohol, is considered so “beyond the pale” in , that the user would suffer extreme social ostracization. Of course there are international agreements against smuggling anything contraband into , or across . These laws are very well enforced.
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