Teen study cheers on brewers

By Tony Wright
Updated February 22 2013 - 9:08am, first published February 11 2013 - 3:00am
"There is a culture of drinking to get drunk" ... director of the McCusker Centre for Action on Alcohol Mike Danube does not believe it is responsible to downplay the youth drinking problem.
"There is a culture of drinking to get drunk" ... director of the McCusker Centre for Action on Alcohol Mike Danube does not believe it is responsible to downplay the youth drinking problem.

AUSTRALIA'S brewers, ramping up their campaign against government-mandated warnings on alcohol products, have seized on the nation's latest and largest survey of teenagers' drinking habits to declare that it ''dispels the myth that there is an alcohol crisis in Australia''.

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