The BBC reports that a study group of Scottish youth has recommended ‘a complete ban of alcohol advertising in public places’ as a long term goal to curb the substance’s negative affects on the cohort, with other measures including price floors on sale, ‘research into the impact of passive drinking [and] more lessons in school about alcohol abuse’.

The Youth Commission on Alcohol, a group of 16 volunteers aged between 14 and 22, has spent a year preparing its 38 recommendations.

The commission said many young people are negatively affected, not by their own drinking choices, but by those of others.

Youth Commissioner Ryan Leitch, 22, from Glasgow, said: “We based our recommendations on the evidence we received from alcohol experts and the Scottish people.

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