Don’t put all of us into the same box

IN the article ‘Bad stars fuel teenage drink abuse’ (Irish Examiner, October 15) Larry Ryan of Behaviour and Attitudes, the market research company, is quoted as saying, “kids regard alcohol as being massively central to popular culture”.

I would like to point out that young people are not merely an amorphous mass who all think and behave alike, as this seems to imply.

I am 14 years old and I am considered something of a nonconformist because I neither drink alcohol nor have any desire to do so.