The party's over

"I still go out clubbing and to parties," says Simon Pile, 22, a business studies student at Bournemouth University who hasn't touched alcohol since he was 17.

"But I'll just watch if others are playing drinking games. There are growing numbers of us here who don't drink."

Simon initially went teetotal because he drove, but he no longer has a car. It's now down to taste and money-saving. "I don't like beer and I'm not too fussed about alcopops," he says.

"Plus, I have my heart set on buying a house. The idea of going out, coming back, and finding £50 less in my wallet, without being able to remember what happened, doesn't sound like much of a night out."

Josh Dunbar, 19, says he's become an expert on pouring drinks into plants or toilets without his friends - who've just bought them for him - noticing.

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