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. 2020 Sep 25;17(19):7025. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17197025
FG 3 Girl 1Alcohol is… I mean alcohol for me, if you don’t drink much, all the time and so on, it’s not really bad
Girl 2but not at our age
Girl 3yeah, that’s it
Girl 2I think, well there are a lot that are doing it at our age. Because generations… I mean, I, personally, I notice that the generations… more… for example, before in 6th grade (Equivalent of 6ème in France, 6th grade in United States of America and Germany, 7th grade in UK; approximatively 11 years old), there was nobody with mobile phone. Now, in 6th grade they all have an IPhone. And I think that’s too much. And thus they think they are grown up, so they think they can drink alcohol, smoke…
Girl 1There are people at school, when they invite each other’s, they drink, smoke shisha, they are… I mean… they do what they want, but not for me.”
Girl 3They put that on Snapchat for example
InterviewerWhy do you say it’s too early? Is there eventually an age limit or…
Girl 3No but not our age
Girl 2Not an age limit but you shouldn’t…
Girl 1it should be over used
Girl 2that’s it
Girl 1With my family when there are birthdays, my parents they are like “oh you can have a small glass”, but that’s it. They are not like go ahead drink anything you want, no it’s just one glass. And if I don’t want any, they won’t oblige me to. My mother she says “if you don’t drink, I am really happy like that”… I mean… That’s it, a glass, for me it’s fine.
Girl 3Me I don’t drink, I don’t like that” […]
Girl 2For example, I have celebrated the new year evening with my friends and there was other people who did it with their friends; well they had a lot of alcohol, whereas us we didn’t have any. It depends on the people, because for some it’s normal that at our age… yeah that’s it.
Girl 1they want to be the grown up” […]
InterviewerSo if I understand it well, for you and today, you say that it’s not necessarily for you and you won’t necessarily drink much alcohol or when you have birthdays and on, but maybe that in two years times, maybe it would be more… normal?
Girl 2Yes
Girl 1Yeas that’s it
Girl 3I think that at the moment it’s not for our age
FG 7 Girl (talking about two profiles) “Both of them had a bit of alcohol. I mean I think they are older than us. So, well, it’s totally normal