KMS gets in on Sticker Shock Campaign
Courtesy photo Here is an example of one of the stickers that were put on the liquor bags as part of the Idaho Sticker Shock Campaign. The stickers warn adults of the legal ramifications of buying and/or providing alcohol to minors.
Courtesy photo Students in Matt Langer’s classrom put more than 3,000 stickers on bags as part of the campaign.
KELLOGG — The issue of under-aged drinking is becoming more and more of an issue, and is affecting people of all ages.
Kellogg Middle School seventh-grade students decided to join the Idaho Sticker Shock Campaign sponsored by Idaho State Liquor Division and Idaho Office of Drug Policy.
Over the last few months, including the recent holiday season, folks buying any products at a liquor store may have noticed a sticker on the bag their bottles are carried out in.
The campaign is to increase awareness about the consequences for under-age drinkers and adults who provide alcoholic beverages to them.
In KMS teacher Matt Langer’s classroom, they decided to take action.
Langer gave out the bags and stickers in late November and instructed his seventh-grade students that they’d be labeling them.
With hard work, they labeled 3,000 bags in just two days, finishing just three days before the campaign started.
“This goal was and still is to bring more public attention to the issue of underage drinking and the adults who provide alcohol to minors,” Langer said. “Hopefully, this can inform that if an adult were to be caught giving alcohol to a minor, they could have to pay a fine up to $1,000 and face up to a year in jail.”
The crusade was started by the Youth-Led “Sticker Shock” Public Awareness Group.
In the end, this group would be giving those bags to 60 liquor stores all across Idaho to spread knowledge about this problem becoming more and more common amongst teens.
Overall, there are more bad consequences to underage drinking than good, make sure and think twice before you pay the price.