More often than not, people consume alcohol for countless reasons; celebrations, stress, sadness, boredom, rebellion and peer pressure are just a few. The ages between 18 to 21 year olds fall in the category of “people”. In the United States, the legal age drinking is currently twenty-one, but illegally anyone can consume alcohol. Now the main question is why? If at the age of 18 in America, people are allowed to purchase tobacco, get married without parental consent, and even join the armed forces, therefore they should be able to drink an alcohol beverage legally.
Now a day, for numerous reasons teens are consuming alcohol, weather it be for enjoyment or peer pressure, but the main reason of doing so is “breaking the law”. According to the SADD Statistics, “Nearly three quarters of students (72%) have consumed alcohol (more than just a few sips) by the end of high school, and more than a third (37%) …show more content…
As I was researching on the Internet, I found an article stating some of the facts why the drinking age in our nation is twenty-one. Most of us Americans don’t know that “ all states abide by Legal Age 21 because of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which was passed in 1984, will withhold a percentage of federal highway funding from any state that chooses an age below 21. “ (Chooseresponsibility.org) Besides the fact that American falls in with one of the few countries with the highest age limit, Australia on the other hand had the minimum drinking age of eighteen. There have been many studies that those adolescents are quite well. For example, Ruth C. Engs; professor of Applied Health Sciences at Indiana University, stated in one of her article that “The legal drinking age should be lowered to about 18 or 19 and young adults allowed to drink in controlled environments such as restaurants, taverns, pubs and official school and university
Now a day, for numerous reasons teens are consuming alcohol, weather it be for enjoyment or peer pressure, but the main reason of doing so is “breaking the law”. According to the SADD Statistics, “Nearly three quarters of students (72%) have consumed alcohol (more than just a few sips) by the end of high school, and more than a third (37%) …show more content…
As I was researching on the Internet, I found an article stating some of the facts why the drinking age in our nation is twenty-one. Most of us Americans don’t know that “ all states abide by Legal Age 21 because of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which was passed in 1984, will withhold a percentage of federal highway funding from any state that chooses an age below 21. “ (Chooseresponsibility.org) Besides the fact that American falls in with one of the few countries with the highest age limit, Australia on the other hand had the minimum drinking age of eighteen. There have been many studies that those adolescents are quite well. For example, Ruth C. Engs; professor of Applied Health Sciences at Indiana University, stated in one of her article that “The legal drinking age should be lowered to about 18 or 19 and young adults allowed to drink in controlled environments such as restaurants, taverns, pubs and official school and university