Alcohol beverage companies made estimated $17.5 billion on underage drinking, study says

“A study of this kind hasn’t been done in some 20 years, and it shows that the alcohol industry is making billions of dollars from the sale of alcohol to minors,” said study author Pamela Trangenstein, an assistant professor at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“It’s really shocking that underage drinkers generated $17 billion in alcohol sales as late as 2016,” said nutrition researcher Marion Nestle, a visiting professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell University who has authored numerous books on the politics of the food…