<p>"The college with lowest incidents of hospitalization? McGill in Canada where the age is 18. Food for thought. "</p>
<p>Our DD just spent a year in Israel where the drinking age is 18. She reports that binge drinking, and general low class drunkenness is found among, sorry to say, American kids on gap year programs - but she did not observe it among Israelis, who do not have that kind of “drinking culture” Israelis drink at restaurants, in particular at higher end ones - the dives (in essence) on “crack square” in central Jerusalem - exist to serve american kids. She took a few weeks to assemble her ‘crowd’ of serious intellectual kids who rarely drank.</p>