Epidemiology of binge drinking
Concerns over binge drinking by teenagers has led to a review of liquor advertising being announced by the New Zealand government in January 2006. The review considered regulation of sport sponsorship by liquor companies, which at present is commonplace. Previously the drinking age in New Zealand was 20, then dropped to 18 in 1999.
Temperance movement in New Zealand
The temperance movement in New Zealand aims at curbing the drinking of alcohol in the country. Although it met with local success, it narrowly failed to impose national prohibition on a number of occasions in the early twentieth century. Temperance organisations remain active in the country today.