Yu J
New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, Albany 12203, USA.
Int J Addict. 1995 Aug;30(10):1289-301. doi: 10.3109/10826089509105134.
Raising the drinking age twice in New York State in the 1980s might have created a generation of "serial beginning drinkers." Findings indicate that when young adults become beginning drinkers, their chances of drinking-driving increase; when they become serial beginning drinkers, their involvement in drinking-driving remains high over time. The beginning drinkers belong to a special historical period and are only composed of birth cohorts of 3 or 4 years (mainly early 1960s). The effect of the serial beginning drinker should fade out as those birth cohorts grow into maturity.
20世纪80年代纽约州两次提高饮酒年龄，可能造就了一代“连续初饮者”。研究结果表明，当年轻人开始饮酒时，他们酒后驾车的几率会增加；当他们成为连续初饮者时，随着时间推移，他们卷入酒后驾车的情况仍居高不下。初饮者属于一个特殊的历史时期，仅由3至4年出生队列组成（主要是20世纪60年代初）。随着那些出生队列步入成年，连续初饮者的影响应该会逐渐消失。
