What does this has to do with alcohol?!? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />
You have to be 18 to buy beer, and 21 to buy "heavier" stuff (still alcohol, we have no age restrictions when it comes to drugs (and we're not talking aspirin <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />) in general. They're all illegal, to buy, sell, to have in your blood, to possess to anything, more or less).
When it comes to prices, Sweden has a clear strategy, used thourgh the system company (freely translated), which is the only company in Sweden legalized to deal with heavier liquor. The averange supermarket can sell booze, as long as it's under 3,5 volume %. Otherwise it's sold by the state (to outrageous prizes, that's why it's popular to go to Germany to buy booze <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />).
And come on! We're famous too (espesially those Finnish dudes, they've got nothing to do than drink all day <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />)!