alcohol” (Dowshen). These students are more likely to show serious drinking problems later in life during middle age and adulthood. People are debating that the minimum legal drinking age of 21 years is not working to stop youths from drinking alcohol. Lowering the drinking age to 18 will make alcohol more available to those that are younger to purchase and consume. Even though 18 is the legal age of adulthood‚ the minimum legal drinking age should remain at 21 because the 18-year-old adult body is not
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and to fight for our country‚ so why shouldn’t they be able to consume alcohol? Some adults feel that lowering the legal drinking age would cause more problems on the road and in bars or night clubs‚ but until we give young adults the opportunity to prove themselves‚ we are just stereotyping every eighteen-year-old. Here are a couple of reasons that lowering the legal drinking age makes sense: eighteen-year-olds are able to fight and die for your country‚ states are allowing underage alcohol consumption
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The Drinking Age in The U.S. Should Be Lowered When a person turns eighteen‚ he or she can get married‚ vote‚ pay taxes‚ purchase cigarettes‚ be tried as an adult for crimes‚ legally use their own credit card‚ purchase real estate‚ and even enter the military. When a United States citizen turns eighteen‚ that person is considered a legal adult. According to The United States Constitution‚ “The right of citizens of the United States‚ who are eighteen-years of age or older‚ to vote shall not be denied
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would you feel if your your loved teen was taken from you because of teen drinking? Underage drinking has been a problem for many years and sadly people do get their loved ones taken from them because of teen drinking. Many of the underage drinking accidents aren’t because of driving either. There are short term and long term health effects that can effects that can cause tremendous pain on your community. Underage drinking has been a problem for many years. It has primarily impacted society
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Carolina Quiroga April 02‚ 2012 Leslie Jones English 102 The Drinking Age and Young Adults. Because underage drinking is a major problem for young adults‚ the drinking age has become a very controversial issue. In the 1990’s‚ the drinking age was 18‚ but it was changed to 21 in 1984. The Federal Government informed states to choose between raising the drinking age to 21 or foregoing highway funding. This decision obviously affected 18 to 20 year olds who could no longer buy alcoholic beverages
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The drinking age be lowered to 18 "Alcohol is the drug of choice among America’s adolescents‚ used by more young people than tobacco or illicit drugs... [T]here are 10.1 million underage drinkers in the United States... 39% of current 8th graders‚ 58% of 10th graders‚ 72% of 12th graders‚ and 85% of college students have tried alcohol.” -The National Institutes of Health (NIH) wrote in their fact sheet titled "Underage Drinking" on report.nih.gov. Apparently keeping the drinking age at 21 is not
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change in 1984‚ states had a variety of drinking ages‚ usually being 18 years old‚ but this proved to be dangerous (“Minimum Drinking Age‚” 2015‚ p.11). The organization Mother’s Against Drunk Driving formed after members noticed an increase in alcohol-related accidents especially in young people‚ thus leading them to petition the government to raise the minimum age (Cary‚ 2014‚ para. 4-5). President Reagan agreed with the organization and made the national drinking
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Should the Alcohol Drinking Age Be Increased or Decreased? Bigjohny‚ Alinda. “Opinion: Should the Legal Drinking Age Stay As-Is?” Opinion: The Legal Drinking Age Stay the As-Is?” Manchester.edu‚ n d Wed 13 Apr 2016 http://www.manchester.edu/OSD/OakLeaves/archives/Issue_14/OpinionShouldtheLegalDrinkingAgeStayAs-Is.htm This essay was written to persuade the reader on the topic of keeping the drinking age where it is now. It gives details on why it’s to be taken seriously. I plan of using this to get
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Lowering the Minimum Legal Drinking Alcohol consumption is the third leading actual cause of death in the United States‚ a major contributing factor to unintentional injuries‚ the leading cause of death for young people‚ and it accounts for an estimated 75‚000 or more total deaths in the United States annually. There have been a lot of discussions about whether to keep the minimum legal drinking age at 21 or to lower the minimum legal drinking age to 18. The minimum legal drinking age in the United States
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years on whether or not the drinking age should be dropped down from 21 to 18. Many people have views or opinions on what the legal drinking age should or should not be. Right now the legal drinking age is 21‚ and many people‚ especially a younger crowd‚ are working extremely hard to change that to 18. All over the world‚ different countries have a different standard which leads to a different drinking age. There is a reason why the United States has put the legal drinking age at 21. This was to ensure
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