On-screen boozing tied to kids' binge drinking | Reuters:
How much drinking kids and teens had seen in recent movies was linked to the chances they overdid it on alcohol themselves in a new study from six European countries.
Researchers said that movies and television may make kids see drinking as mature and cool, but that studies so far -- including the new report -- don't definitively prove that causes them to take up alcohol.
"I don't think on the basis of this study you can say (to parents) that exposure to alcohol will increase the chance of their child drinking," said Lesley Smith, who has studied teen drinking at Oxford Brookes University in the UK, but wasn't involved in the new study.
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