Leonid Kolos,
photographer
“Trying it is one thing. When it is freely available, that is another. Of course, it is wrong, even though a drink at the family dinner table was considered okay. If schoolchildren are passing time by drinking with friends instead of staying in school or investing time in healthy activities, there are ethical [problems] around this.”
Yuriy Treshyna,
manager
“Of course, measures must be taken against teenage drinking. To say the least, we must minimize the habits of underage drinking so it doesn’t involve the masses as a whole with this tendency.”
Lyudmyla Podysha,
student
“Definitely measures must be taken. Why should they be having drinks? Let them have water instead of alcohol.”
Vaselysiya Mykhailiuk,
student
“I think that measures must be definitely taken. The statistics definitely speak for themselves. So many incidents have happened related to people drinking, it’s horrible. Restrictions on the territory of the universities would be a good option, aside from that measure must definitely be taken in regards to the issue.”
Yevhen Zubenko,
magazine editor
“This is a very bad trend. What the government must do is propagate a healthy lifestyle, sparing no resources it has at hand. Awareness must also break into the area of education, not only in universities, but also schools in general. The government must not economize on this issue…while the youth are suffering.”
