AFTER reading Chris Greenwood's report on children boozing (February 3), it's sad the area in question is so close to home. But where do children get their ideas from?

Adults, whether we like it or not.

Look at many of the soaps where drinking features heavily in the Queen Vic, the Woolpack and the Rovers Return. What do you expect if on television it's the norm, and shown as the only way to socialise?

Keith Chapman,

St Benedict Road,

Nunnery Lane, York.

Updated: 12:03 Wednesday, February 09, 2005