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We can talk about teenagers as
Should the legal drinking age of 18 years in Queensland be raised to 21? That is the question being asked. It would be hard to argue that point, especially when in the eyes of the law once a young person turns 18 years old you are legally an adult. At 18 you have the legal right to vote, get married, have sex, buy smokes and even go war and die at war. Originally the drinking age was 21 years old, but this was changed during the Vietnam War, claiming if an 18-year-old person can be conscripted they should have the right to drink.…
We think, how could someone be that irresponsible? These drivers are usually over the age of 21, but if the legal drinking age was lowered to 18, the causes of these accidents would be on the shoulders of teenagers, and if they were still in high school, on the shoulders of their parents. This also puts the roadways at higher risk of traffic accidents and puts more pressure on younger drivers.…
SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 21 Nov. 2016. Teenagers are inexperienced drivers and are more likely to use technology while driving. Teenagers should not distract themselves while driving because they have an increased risk of getting into a car accident.…
Estimates from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration claim every year nine hundred lives are saved by the drinking age being set at twenty-one. In 1984 the federal government passed a law that the minimum drinking age should be twenty-one in all states, and since then drunk driving rates have dropped fifty-four percent. While lives have been saved by the minimum age being raised the law is outdated because there are better safety features in vehicles and punishments for drunk driving than there were in the 1980s. Bahar Gholipour, a writer for The Huffington Post, warns in his article, “Keeping Legal Drinking Age at 21 Saves 900 Lives Yearly: Study,” that the drinking age should remain at twenty- one because there is evidence that the higher drinking age has lowered underage drinking and drunk driving.…
This is why the legal drinking age should be raised to twenty-one. Firstly, alcohol causes deadly health issues. One of the most obvious of these issues is alcohol poisoning. It shuts down the brain’s vital functions, including breathing and many people die from it every year.…
Drunk driving is a serious issue in today's society, even with the age being 21. So, the age should not be lowered. The National Traffic Highway Administration (NHTSA) states “the 21 minimum drinking age law has saved about 900 lives per year”. If this was to be changed to a lower drinking age, the crash related alcohol rates would increase. Alcohol-related traffic deaths in the United States was 12,998 in 2007, and increasing dramatically as time goes on.…
Lowering Minimum Legal Drinking Age Turning 18 is similar to a rite of passage in today’s society, an entirely new world is opened up once someone is 18 years old. People can now make numerous life-altering decisions because they are legally adults, however, drinking alcohol is not one of these new adult decisions available to 18 year olds. Drinking alcohol is just as life changing as smoking a cigarette; the minimum smoking age is only 18, so why is the drinking age 21? People argue that the drinking age needs to stay at 21 because frontal lobes in the human brain, which control decision making, are not fully developed until 21, if this is true then why is 21 not the mark of adulthood?…
Some people may think that raising, or keeping the drinking age the same, will reduce drunk driving accidents and keep people under 21 away from alcohol. This is hardly the case. When the drinking age was raised to 21 in the U.S, drunk driving accidents only lowered 9% and 78% of teens have already had their first drink. Only 26% of high school seniors believe it is wrong for underage teens to drink. While there are so many things you can legally do at age 18, when you become a legal adult, you can’t drink alcohol.…
An estimated 20,000lives have been saved in the past twenty-five years, but yet politicians are not wanting to budge on the driving age in the United States. It is estimated that triple the number of lives saved due to the change in drinking age will be saved if the driving age was to be raised. It takes a lot of persuasion to change a hard headed politicians mind. What usually gets them to is a series of crashed involving young adults, and then, jut maybe, they will think of other ways to protect our young people(Davis, “is 16 too Young?”).…
I believe the legal drinking age being set at twenty-one is past due and America is a lot more modern and educated enough to have the legal drinking age set at eighteen and functioning accordingly. The topic on drinking and driving is going to happen no matter what age we set the legal drinking age at. America is at a new age and should be able to educate the young to drink responsibly along with supervising the permitted age groups that are eligible to…
The legal drinking age should remain at the age of twenty-one because underage drinking effects federal funds, the number of deaths due to drinking and driving has reduced since the law…
If a teen drinks and drives it is likely that they were taught this behavior from the parents. So should we raise the drinking age? Although I think the legal drinking age should be lowered I also think that the law should have limitations. Such as you can only drink beer, not the hard liquor. If you get caught drinking and driving you should have your driving privileges removed for a set amount of time and also pay a…
“ At all levels of blood alcohol concentration(BAC), the risk of being involved in a crash is greater for young people than for older people” ( Shults) “ 1 in 10 teens in high school drinks and drives.” ( CDC) The topic of whether or not the legal drinking age in the US should stay at 21 or go down to 18 has been widely debated. The stats show a clear statement that in order to keep our teens out of danger the legal drinking age in the US should stay at 21 to keep for the well being of our teens physical and mental health. The topic about the legal drinking age in America has been widely debated among the years.…
The Alcohol Drinking Age Should be Increased The idea of raising the alcoholic drinking age protects young people. Indeed they are still incapable of accepting responsibilities included in the drinking of alcohol. In fact, according to DO SOMETHING.org, 5,000 people under the age of twenty-one die each year from alcohol-related car crashes, homicides, suicides, alcohol poisoning, and other injuries such as falls, burns, and drowning.…
So because of that the driving age should be raised. According to Julie (n.d) in ‘driving and texting” “make your car a no phone zone”. Saving people from car accidents that are caused by teenagers is the most important thing the countries should work on starting from today. Decrease the number of car accidents by rising the driving age to 21 so we can stop what is happing now a days from losing people that are driving safely in the roads from drivers who are driving in a careless why like…