Drinking Age Essay
Should the legal age for the consumption of alcoholic beverages such as wine, beer, and liquor be lowered? In America, any person that is twenty-one years of age is considered ‘old enough’ to consume such beverages and allowed to socially drink. Even though any person of eighteen years or older is considered an adult in the view of the the United States. Any eighteen year old is able to vote for said leader of the country even if they don't factor in certain the effects a leader would have on the economy. I know people don’t always think through decisions and most teenagers don’t known which campaign really adheres to their lifestyle yet. Cigarettes are a known carcinogen and have been known since the late 1940’s and may also be described
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So why can’t young adults hold the right to socially drink just like any other human that is twenty-one or older. The drinking age was not always what it is today; it has been changed a tremendous amount of times throughout the decades from 1919-present day. There wasn't a national drinking age before the prohibition that from 1920 to 1930 and after the prohibition, most states required age was 18. In 1984 The National Minimum Drinking Age Act was enacted by Ronald Reagan, it was a law that required states to raise the drinking age or ten percent of the federal highway funding would be cut. Of course all of the states followed the act but there have been arguments ever since. Drinking and driving is not as big of a problem in other countries as it is here in the United States. Simply because it is not seen as a taboo among young people in 157 countries that have the age requirement set to eighteen - zero. If we normalized the act of socially drinking it wouldn't be such a big deal and more teenagers wouldn't be inadvertently disobeying the law. “According to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, underage drinking accounts for $22.5 billion of consumer spending for alcohol in the United States. In 2006, 72.2% of twelfth graders reported drinking alcohol at some point in their
So why can’t young adults hold the right to socially drink just like any other human that is twenty-one or older. The drinking age was not always what it is today; it has been changed a tremendous amount of times throughout the decades from 1919-present day. There wasn't a national drinking age before the prohibition that from 1920 to 1930 and after the prohibition, most states required age was 18. In 1984 The National Minimum Drinking Age Act was enacted by Ronald Reagan, it was a law that required states to raise the drinking age or ten percent of the federal highway funding would be cut. Of course all of the states followed the act but there have been arguments ever since. Drinking and driving is not as big of a problem in other countries as it is here in the United States. Simply because it is not seen as a taboo among young people in 157 countries that have the age requirement set to eighteen - zero. If we normalized the act of socially drinking it wouldn't be such a big deal and more teenagers wouldn't be inadvertently disobeying the law. “According to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, underage drinking accounts for $22.5 billion of consumer spending for alcohol in the United States. In 2006, 72.2% of twelfth graders reported drinking alcohol at some point in their