@mr_penguin nobody cared when i bought booze or tobacco with 14. nobody, not even my parents were (they certainly should've) giving a shit when i was shitface drunk aged twelve.
the problem with these laws is that they take away responsibility from parents and society because "there's a law against that!".
everyone just waits for the authority. which seldom acts, and if it acts it's most often the cases that don't make life hard for the authorities anyway.