Teenage drunk driving is a serious concern in today’s society. Underage drinking has been a popular topic amongst scholars for many years. A teenager driving drunk is against the law‚ has many consequences‚ and is a continuous problem. In order to understand how underage drinking goes against the law‚ it is important to first know who it is effecting teens. In 1984‚ a law was passed stating that alcohol cannot be consumed if under the age of 21. Anyone under the age 21 must have a blood alcohol
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Zero-Tolerance For sober Driving If you are depressed‚ and no medicines are working for you‚ alcohol just might be the way out. If you need something to do‚ getting drunk just might be the solution. Bored? I heard being drunk makes everything just a little more flashy. How about a challenge? The way alcohol really blurs your vision‚ when driving can really spice up your driving life. If at first you don’t succeed – try‚ try‚ and try again. After all‚ practice makes perfect! Recently‚ more and more
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Is Drunk Driving worth losing your life? Katie Ideal Thompson * Drinking and driving * Specific Purpose: To persuade my classmates to not get behind the wheel after drinking. Thesis Statement: Drinking and driving is an issue that most seem to ignore and think it doesn’t affect us but what if one day it did? I. Attention A. Maybe you were out with your friends one night having fun drinking at a bar or house party maybe celebrating a birthday or special event such as new years.
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Abstract Cause: Driving drunk Effect One: Penalties Jail time Losing your job Missing your family’s time Effect Two: Personal injury The finical cost one self The cost to the state for those uninsured The cost to your family Effect Three: Cost of life Killing your self Killing incident bystanders Causing injury’s that are irreversible Annotated Bibliography Fancher‚ R. (2003). Drinking & DRIVING. Scholastic Choices‚ 19(1)‚ 6. Retrived from
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Drunk Driving‚ Groups‚ Affects‚ Laws How much longer will it take to get rid of careless drunk drivers? Drunk driving has been a problem in the United States since the beginning of automobiles; however‚ it did not become an important social issue until the mid 1980’s. Drunk driving was defined as a problem located within individuals or groups. Drunk driving is illegal in every state. It is not only illegal‚ but unsafe to operate an automobile if you are under the influence of alcohol. When a person
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sometimes drunk driving still isn’t taken as serious as it needs to be; but with an annual cost of 50 billion dollars‚ alcohol related crashes are clearly still a problem. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers‚ especially if impaired‚ (Preventing). Impairment is defined as the amount of alcohol in the blood‚ (Drunk). The way the government/law enforcement can tell if someone is impaired is their BAC level. The government has also helped decrease the statistics of drunk driving
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Drunk Driving happens when the driver of a vehicle is intoxicated from alcoholic beverages. This very dangerous and has devastating effects. Many people die each year from a drunk driving accident. In the lesson on drunk driving it states‚" Almost half of the crashes in which people are killed nationally involve drinking. There are more than 16‚000 of those crashes each year." in the same essay it states‚" The average person is likely to be legally intoxicated after consuming three mixed drinks‚
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alcohol-impaired driving crashes? Believe me when I tell you that the numbers are increasing as we speak. People driving while intoxicated still cause about 13‚000 deaths a year in the United States. And of the 1.4 million arrests made‚ one-third involve repeat offenders. That’s why I feel we should get breathalyzers in are cars. To begin with‚ there would be less of a chance of getting in an accident. Some may think it would be a bad idea‚ but just think you would stop drunk people for starting
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topic‚ driving while under the influence of alcohol is surrounded by myths. With the help of the Internet and popular media‚ unsubstantiated beliefs about drunk driving can spread further and appear more credible. Unfortunately‚ these myths also perpetuate the thousands of alcohol related deaths on our nation’s highways each year. Here are four of the more common myths: You Can Drive While Intoxicated by Going Slower The idea behind this one is that if your reflexes are slower‚ then driving slower
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drinking with driving established a powerful link through which MADD and other groups were able to create and impose their definition of the problem . Like other policies ‚ the process of problem definition creates a social construction of the targeted groups ‚ helping us to understand which policy tools will be adopted Introduction Drunk driving is a primary cause of highway traffic accidents causing deaths and injuries with enormous monetary costs to society . The drunk driving was first recognized
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