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The City Council will seek the involvement of three well - known personalities to join the campaign, promoted by the Federation of Spirits and the Ministry of Health
The only valid consumption underage alcohol is to be recorded as zero.
With this premise as a basis, Councilman Felipe Coello Popular Party will submit to the plenary next Thursday a motion to the incorporation of Murcia's network of cities against alcohol consumption by minors.
To do this, Coello, councilor in charge of Sports and Health, propose the accession driven by the Spanish Spirits Federation (FEBE) and the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality campaign, which aims to involve the whole society, including educational and sports centers, in hotel, catering and distribution, with special attention to adolescents themselves and their families.
Entitled "Children not a drop. Over a hundred reasons why a child does not drink alcohol," the initiative also plans to seek the support of at least three known personalities or institutions in the municipality, especially athletes, actors, teams and clubs sports, painters, sculptors, presenters, singers, etc.
they can leave their audiovisual testimony in the campaign, in digital media and web www.menoresniunagota.es
The support of the City will also be reflected in the dissemination of materials developed for families to have the necessary tools to fight this consumption.
FEBE provide a guide for parents that the city distributed through youth facilities and community centers, with a special presence in the activities organized for the promotion of alternative entertainment, especially through the networks of the Department of Youth and Cooperation program to Development.
I do not sell to minors
In addition, the motion presented Coello collaboration aims to achieve hospitality and distribution, under the slogan "I do not sell alcohol to minors."
"Clearly the need for the involvement of the whole society and keep working to get teens to make a zero alcohol consumption," said Coello, who underlined that the latest data confirms that there has been a substantial decrease in consumption alcohol among the surveyed population.
These figures have been published by the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality, through the State Survey of Secondary Education "ESTUDES" 2014/2015, students performed in alcohol consumption by minors between 14 and 18, and indicate that this reduction is more pronounced in the case of intensive consumption (frequency of binge drinking in the last 30 days and consumption as binge eating), "which shows that the work on prevention has begun to deliver results" says the popular councilman.
But less binge drinking binges
Despite these data, the Popular Party is concerned about the following data obtained from the survey:
78.9% of students aged 14 to 18 years has ever tried alcohol in life.
76.8% have used it in the last year.
And 68.2% have done so in the last month.
The percentage of students drinking increases the weekends.
They drink beer mostly weekday and weekend, combined followed by beer and wine.
Alcohol they get themselves directly or through over 18 that is provided.
1.7% of young people aged 14 to 18 years has consumed alcohol daily over the past 30 days (0.9% at 14 years and 2.4% at 17 years).
1 in 3 students have consumed alcohol in the form of binge eating (binge drinking) in the last 30 days.
Although descend binge drinking, 2 out of 10 students have been drunk at some time in the last month.
And 3 in 10 students (31.9%) have a risk consumption during weekends.
All children start the consumption of alcoholic beverages at very early ages, around 13.9 years.
Source: PP Murcia
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