The research showed that only 7 percent of Italian young people aged 15 to 24 get drunk at least three times a week, compared with 36 percent in Denmark. Furthermore, the study found that Italian youngsters snub friends who drink too much.

"There are protective cultural factors in Italy," said Enrico Tempesta, a scientist at Italy's Permanent Observatory on Alcohol and Youth, a government-sponsored body that conducted the research. "Here, children and teenagers disapprove and tend to exclude from their circle a contemporary who gets drunk."

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