Drinking Age In Canada

Canada is always praised for its health service all over the world, and its concern for its youth especially from the age of (12-25) about their education, behavior, physical & mental growth, and health. Focusing on that, the crime rate and health problem is mostly seen in youth and reason is none other than drinking and smoking in early age. “The drinking age was last changed, from 18 to 19, in the 1970s” (Allen 1). Changes in the legal eligible age of drinking will have a huge impact on over countries issue’s related to health and crime. It is statistical analysis that 23% Ontario secondary student drinks in hazardous and harmful level. Its leaves us a question whether keeping this age limit will make things worst or government should take …show more content…
Young adults are not mature enough to take important decision they don’t know the limit of consuming alcohol. If they start drinking at initial age, the side effect of that will be that they will end up not drinking hazardous level but also turn towards smoking, drugs addiction, weeds, and marijuana People generally says drinking leads to liver disease such as liver damage, liver cirrhosis etc, but research have shown that it does not only causes liver disease but it causes more than 60 different types of disease thereby it increase fatality rate. "The evidence is clear that there would be consequences if we lowered the legal drinking age," says lead researcher (William DeJong 1). Another side effect of drinking is teenagers involving in sexual activity and transmitting sexual disease like (AIDS & HIV). Therefore raising the age of the drinking will make situation better and will reduce the health issue occurring in youth and young adults and will rose the Canadian health rate. Hence to show the concern about teenager health the government should raise the drinking