Young people's access to tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.

 Young people in the UK can easily obtain cigarettes and alcoholic drinks from a range of social and illicit commercial sources before they reach the legal minimum purchase age; many also report having access to illicit drugs  Prices of alcoholic drinks and most illicit drugs, but not cigarettes, have been falling in real terms  Increasing the price of tobacco and alcohol is likely to reduce young people's demand for them  Enforcing or raising minimum purchase ages can reduce under-age sales of tobacco and alcohol, and has also been shown to reduce young peope's hazardous use of alcohol  Unenforced voluntary agreements with retailers, and intervening in illicit distribution systems, have not been shown to influence young people's use of tobacco, alcohol or other drugs.