Why Should The Drinking Age Be 18

“There are fewer drunk driving traffic accidents and fatalities in many countries with a minimum drinking age of 18” (18 Interesting Pro…). So why does the United States keep the age that you can have libations at 21? There has been a debate going on whether the drinking age should be 21 or 18. People have brought up statistics on the amount of wrecks and the amount of money going back into the economy. So the United States needs to change the drinking age, the drinking age should be 18 because a person is legally an adult at 18, there’s less risky behaviors, and it would boost the US economy. The drinking age needs to be lowered because there are people dying for the US that can’t even drink in the United States. Look at him go he is now
One big place that the economy really gets a boost from is though tourism. A lot of younger adults travel right after high school and right before college. If there is a young adult that wants to travel away from their country and is thinking about coming to the United States one turn off is the drinking age being 21. Younger adults like to go to countries that have a lower drinking age or even countries that don't even have a drinking age because it is enticing. They know that drinking there is not taboo. Seth Hurtwitz is a guy who has traveled the world and when he was in countries that had no drinking age he noticed that some of the kids that weren’t drinking weren’t drinking because of the drinking age but because they didn’t want to. “kids are going to drink if they want to drink” (Hurtwitz). That is a big heresy that most United States citizens have. If the United States changes the drinking age to 18 doesn’t mean that every 18 year old is going to start drinking and get drunk all of the time. There is going to be some of the docile 18 year olds that just won’t drink because they don’t want to, drinking isn’t insipid but the difference is that they get a choice on what they want to do and how they want to live their