The State - News from April 21, 1986

With 30% of the country’s 9-year-olds feeling social pressure to drink, the time has come for a classroom campaign to stop childhood tippling, said Thomas V. Seessel, executive director of the National Council on Alcoholism. “Adolescent alcohol abuse has become one of the country’s most devastating epidemics,” he said, speaking at a conference in San Francisco. The conference will feature television commercials and messages in the Weekly Reader, a publication circulated to more than three million children in elementary schools.