vice president of a beer company in a state that sets the legal drinking age at 21. Your boss asks you to organize a lobbying effort to have the drinking age reduced to 18. What would you do? A. I would do research and report my findings to my boss. Although it might seem like a good idea to do so -higher sales‚ and therefore higher revenue and profit- lowering the drinking age would be a losing battle. States can lower the drinking age back down to 18 or 19 but the amount of federal highway funds
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Alcohol...alcohol is everywhere in the United States. Commercials on tv show drinking to be fun all the time‚ but they don’t tell you what really happens when you drink all the time. Drinking can be fun‚ but when you start drinking every weekend your health starts going bad. According to MADD almost every 90 seconds a person is involved in a drunk driving accident. The U.S.A’s legal drinking age has caused many people to want to change the drinking age to 18. Lowering the drinking age to eighteen
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Alcohol Facts and statistics ( www.niaaa.nih.gov-2012 ) Global Burden of alcohol abuse‚ In 2012‚ 3.3 million deaths‚ or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4 percent for women)‚ were attributable to alcohol consumption.. Alcohol contributes to over 200 diseases and injury-related health conditions‚ most notably alcohol dependence‚ liver cirrhosis‚ cancers‚ and injuries. In 2012‚ alcohol accounted for 5.1 percent of disability adjusted life years (DALYs) worldwide. Globally‚
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How much alcohol do teens use? Alcohol is the most frequently used drug by teenagers in the United States. About half of junior high and senior high school students drink alcohol on a monthly basis‚ and 14% of teens have been intoxicated at least once in the past year. Nearly 8% of teens who drink say they drink at least five or more alcoholic drinks in a row (binge drink). What are the dangerous effects of alcohol use in teens? Just a few of the many dangerous effects of alcohol use in teens
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ties and our peer groups or “barkada”. “Among the high school students‚ majority of them are engaged to alcohol drinks at young age. Early in history‚ those who drink at a young age to excess were said to be irresponsible‚ immoral‚ and without character” Bobijes(2009). Alcohol dependency has the ability to affect the social relationship of an individual. In fact teenagers that have serious drinking problems have much higher tendency of smoking cigarettes. This practice can directly lead to another
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Noel Reyes Underage Drinking Title: Teen Drinking 1. Introduction Attention getter: Hello my name is Noel Reyes. Did you know that the National Institute of Health recorded that each year over 5000 young people under the age of 21 die as a result of underage drinking? More than 1‚700 college students in the U.S. are killed each year-about 4.65 a day-- as a result of alcohol-related injuries. Its a growing problem that isn’t going to go away over night. A. Reason audience will be interested: This
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people who are enslaved in the U.S and about 27 million around the world. Shyima was a slave and worked in Irvine‚ California. Is it close to you? If we all work together it is possible to stop human trafficking in the world in the next 25 years. There are many things that you‚ as an individual‚ can do to help stop human trafficking. First you can spread the info. When you spread the info more people would be aware and also try to help. Then maybe you can use your talent‚ for example if you are a
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age limit for drinking is 21. The ever growing underage drinking is becoming more and more popular. Binge drinking if not controlled can also cause alcohol addiction. From a religious stand point‚ drinking is wrong and should not be done. Radley Balko believes the drinking age should be lowered and that there are benefits to it (Kirszner and Mandell 371). There are no benefits to lowering the drinking age despite what Balko may think. In this essay it will be discussed that drinking does not help
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chemistry‚ an alcohol is an organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group (-OH) is bound to a carbon atom. In particular‚ this carbon center should be saturated‚ having single bonds to three other atoms.[1] An important class of alcohols are the simple acyclic alcohols‚ the general formula for which is CnH2n+1OH. Of those‚ ethanol (C2H5OH) is the type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages‚ and in common speech the word alcohol refers specifically to ethanol. Other alcohols are usually
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STOP Please! Save a life by stopping. What is the cost of a life? A few extra seconds to stop? Stopping is well worth human life. I am proposing that a stop be installed at the intersection of Highway 43 and Sharon Road‚ Madison County‚ Mississippi. A STOP sign is inexpensive‚ and can greatly reduce the number of accidents and deaths at that intersection. On January 22‚ 2011‚ Felicia Harris was on her way home from work. She was driving East on Highway 43 approaching the intersection of Highway
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