Yeah, you're going to have to simply have mandatory ID checks every time you buy them. It seems a bit messy to me but I am guessing the expectation is that the business dies out entirely long before you get to the situation when a 66-year-old is asking their 67-year-old brother to buy them a pack.
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Originally Posted by Paul
Challange 25 is a load of nonsense anyway, why is someone who turned 18 over 6 years previously still having to prove they are over 18, if they look 18+ that should be good enough, not 30%+ of their lifetime later. It particularly pissed me off in the summer 3 years ago (while out for a meal & drink) when my oldest daughter got asked - she was actually 28 by then ... seriously, twenty frigging eight, she quite clearly did not look under 18. She did not have any ID on her. After we finished I made it [very] clear to the manager that it was not acceptable, and we would never go back (and we never have).
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Well, it's because they don't want older-looking 17-year-olds buying alcohol. Judging how old somebody looks is obviously difficult so the 25-year-old rule for checking is the catch-all way of ensuring that.
They're mandated to do this by law with serious consequences if they get caught not doing it as it's usually a condition of their licence to apply it. They're not trying to be difficult but would rather lose your business than their license. If it's overzealous then that's on the Government rather than the business.