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When it comes to drinking, young males can’t tell the difference between low alcohol and regular strength beer. That’s according to a study by the University of Victoria’s Centre for Addictions Research (CARBC).

Using unmarked low alcohol beer (3.8 per cent) compared with regular strength beer (5.3 per cent), CARBC research assistant and UVic graduate student Dave Segal found that most of the 34 young male participants could not tell the difference between the two strengths of beer. As well, they reported no differences in how much they enjoyed the occasion or their perceived intoxication.

Segal’s findings support CARBC’s recent recommendation that the BC government modify alcohol pricing policies so that drink prices reflect alcohol content by suggesting lower alcohol content beers could be well-accepted—if the price was right.

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