This third system allowed an underage youth to be sheltered regardless of the legal policies at the time.

Pregnant women and underage youth should not drink alcohol.

Steed also noted that Hannon had occasionally written positively of his own consensual sexual experiences with adult men when he was an underage youth.

Some protest that the machines make it easy for underage youths to buy alcohol and cigarettes.

Last week the Senate reversed an earlier decision and agreed to earmark $34 million to pay for a crackdown on illegal sales of cigarettes to underage youths.

In 2000, O'Grady et al. performed a study which examined the illegal sale of tobacco products to underage youth.

With the use of a rational mind merchants and clerks weigh out the cost benefits and risk factors which are involved in selling cigarettes to underage youth.

Due to the minimal risk of police patrol after 5pm, merchants and clerks felt a diminished sense of risk, therefore allowing them to sell their products illegally to underage youth.

Excluding adults from underage youth would, in their eyes, create a "bubble of safety."

"Should we just assume that underage youths will follow the law, not drink until age 21?"