According to Traci L. Toomey, Carolyn Rosenfeld, and Alexander C. Wagenaar in “The Minimum Legal Drinking Age: History, Effectiveness, and Ongoing Debate” from Alcohol Health and Research World, the Minimum Legal Drinking Age (MLDA) should stay up at 21 to help prevent alcohol-related problems among youth such as, injury and death, second-hand effects, and health issues. Science is and has contributed to the study of the effect of the MLDA laws. After states lowered the MLDA from 21 in the seventies, traffic crashes among teenagers increased greatly, so the government indirectly returned the MLDA to 21. Along with the MLDA, states created drinking policies to further reduce drinking rates concerning teenagers. In correlation with the MLDA being raised, there were notable declines in vehicle crashes and crash fatalities.
Of- age adults and vendors may still distribute alcohol to minors because law enforcement in a county may not be penalizing these illegal gestures harshly enough. There was a …show more content…
These second-hand effects are more prevalent at colleges, especially in fraternity houses. Pertaining mostly to women, “sexual assault and unwanted sexual advances” were a common survey answer of residents’ second-hand affects (Wechsler 225). Another effect of others’ drinking was property damage. Youth’s judgement is impaired more so than ages above 21, so when they go crazy drinking, it isn’t uncommon for them to have stumbled around knocking and kicking down anything in their vicinity.Vandalism is a law-breaking activity which is also paired often with youth drinking. There are many harmful effects for youth when in possession of alcohol, such as fatal traffic crashes, health issues, and secondhand effects to others. In summation, the argument to maintain a MLDA of 21 has sufficient evidence to support its need in the
Of- age adults and vendors may still distribute alcohol to minors because law enforcement in a county may not be penalizing these illegal gestures harshly enough. There was a …show more content…
These second-hand effects are more prevalent at colleges, especially in fraternity houses. Pertaining mostly to women, “sexual assault and unwanted sexual advances” were a common survey answer of residents’ second-hand affects (Wechsler 225). Another effect of others’ drinking was property damage. Youth’s judgement is impaired more so than ages above 21, so when they go crazy drinking, it isn’t uncommon for them to have stumbled around knocking and kicking down anything in their vicinity.Vandalism is a law-breaking activity which is also paired often with youth drinking. There are many harmful effects for youth when in possession of alcohol, such as fatal traffic crashes, health issues, and secondhand effects to others. In summation, the argument to maintain a MLDA of 21 has sufficient evidence to support its need in the