In your country when is it sociably acceptable to drink alcohol and/or smoke cigarettes ?
In France drinking and smoking is almost acceptable for 14/15 year olds

United States

Smoking
Smoking age: 18
Purchase age: 18/19 (varies on state)

Drinking
Drinking age: 21
Purchase age: 21

I'd say like 18-19
But my parents introduced me to alcohol when I was a kid, as do most hispanic households, so they don't care as long as I'm not getting wasted every weekend

It should never be acceptable.

Yeah, no...

Tabacco/Alcohol: 16 years old to buy
Marihuana: 18 years old

It depends on what school you are, lower education smoking is socially accepted when you are 14-15. On my school however, it's accepted when you're about 17 years old.

it shouldn't be acceptable, specially for young people.

In South Africa you need to be 16+ to purchase cigarettes and 18+ for alcohol, but there's NO strict policy on that because 12 year olds buy their **** themselves and drink & smoke it.

You have to be 18. But the society is rather dumb and teenagers start smoking at 12-13 and no one is outraged so

From 1 January 2014 you need to be 18 to buy alcohol

Also in my country, 12 year olds these days don't dream about having a successful career/job. They dream of going to The Netherlands where they can smoke weed freely

Well I don't know about what's socially acceptable (outside of the law, I guess it depends on what parents let their kids do), but where I live it's 16 for smoking, and you can't actually purchase the cigarettes until you're 18 I think. I don't smoke nor do my parents or close friends so I'm not 100% sure on that. For drinking it's 18 and 18, for legal consumption and purchase. I'm not sure about the rest of Australia though, but I think it's the same.

OK so they are countries like France
Seriously I went to London and lit a cig and got so many dirty looks (16)

A lot of young people start drinking and smoking when they go to 'high school', when they're 12/13.
Just like Swine said, on lower education you're 12/13, higher education 16/17.

both of them are legal for the ones older than 18, but alcohol is usually not socially acceptable

Legally Purchase

• Cigarettes: 18 years old
• Alcohol: 18 years old

Socially Acceptable

• Cigarettes: 16 years old
• Alcohol: 16 years old

I find this more important than actual prevention because they are going to do it if parents like it or not ....

smoking - 15
alcohol - 17/half/ or 18