Drinking Age: Change or Keep More than twenty one thousand lives have been saved with the drinking age being twenty one. For about 10 years in the early 1900’s‚ our country ratified the 18th amendment which banned the production and consumption of alcohol. This amendment led to extreme crime‚ violence‚ and even speakeasies. Our country realized that it wasn’t the best idea for prohibition‚ and we then ratified the 21st amendment that repealed the 18th amendment. The 21st amendment has helped prevent
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KEEPING THE DRINKING AGE THE SAME I believe that the drinking age should remain at twenty-one. Underage drinking is dangerous to the drinker and the rest of society. The U.S Department of Health and Human Services analysis shows that frequent binge drinking causes young people to engage in risky behavior such as using other drugs like marijuana and shows that people tend to have sex with six or more partners. Alcohol is very unhealthy for the brain and drinking at a young age could cause many health
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People argue on lowering the drinking age to eighteen whether it is a good idea. Some teenagers start experiencing drinking in high school. Many teenagers think there is nothing wrong with a drink every now or again at a party. In fact‚ many teenagers see drinking alcohol as an important stage in becoming an adult. For this reason‚ teenagers are more temped to consume alcohol. The legal drinking age should be lowered from twenty-one to eighteen because eighteen is considered to be a legal adult‚
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minimum drinking age should be in the United States. Many people think that it should remain at 21 years old and others believe that it should be lowered to 18. While both have their own various reasons‚ this has been an important topic in our country for a long time. President Ronald Reagan signed and passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Law in 1984 which obligated states to raise their legal drinking age to 21 or suffer reductions in Federal highway funds. The highway funds and drinking age was
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The minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) has been a popular debate for many years‚ and as reported by Toomey‚ Rosenfeld‚ and Wagenaar in “The Minimum Legal Drinking Age”‚ it is imperative to keep the age of 21. Alcohol is the main source of numerous problems for teenagers‚ which would escalate if the MLDA was decreased. The MLDA was lowered between 1970 and 1975 by 29 states‚ resulting in an increase in dilemmas such as “traffic crashes‚ drownings‚ vandalism‚ assaults‚ homicides‚ suicides‚ teenage
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Drink Responsibly Drinking at an early age has been an ongoing discussion among young Americans and their opponents‚ their parents and‚ elders. Much adolescence believe that setting the drinking age at 21 does not make any difference‚ and it should even be lowered to 18‚ as many other countries hold. Even though there is no proof that not legalizing drinking age at 21 genuinely makes a difference‚ US should not lower the drinking age‚ and should maintain it at 21 years old. In their pamphlet
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that the current legal drinking age which is 21 should be lowered to eighteen or not. Alcohol consumption has become the number one choice drug to be used by America’s adolescents. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) wrote in their fact sheet titled “Underage Drinking”: “Particularly worrisome among adolescents is the high prevalence of binge drinking... Underage drinkers consume‚ on average‚ 4 to 5 drinks per occasion about 5 times a month. By comparison‚ drinkers age 26 and older consume 2
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The legal drinking age has been a controversial topic for the past few decades. Many may argue that the drinking age should be lowered to 18 since you are already treated and considered like an adult by that age. Others may argue to raise the drinking age to 25 to prevent more accidents that are harming innocent citizens. Thinking that the older you get the more mature you are. And others just say to keep the legal drinking age at 21 since this system has been working fine for the time being. What
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Lowering the Drinking Age to 18 in the United States While it may seem to some‚ drinking at age eighteen is frowned upon. It is actually true that many people between the ages of 18 and 20 drink alcohol illegally without any sense of guilt. On July 17‚ 1984‚ a law was established in the United States that impacted a large number of America’s youth. The indicated law was the National Minimum Drinking Age Act. Legal drinking ages were originally determined by each state. Many states kept the age at twenty
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Driving is one of the most common jobs that adults and even young kids go through every day. Unfortunately‚ there are many fatalities on the road every day. These deadly accidents are due to many bad decisions that the driver took. Whether it was reckless‚ frustration‚ or the worst‚ under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol‚ the result of a crash usually ends in a death‚ and a mourning of a family. What I’m saying‚ is that the biggest problem today‚ in our modern era‚ this present century‚ is driving
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