Should the minimum drinking age be lowered?
Alcohol has been a part of many cultures throughout history and still is part of our modern culture, for example the priest drinks wine as a symbol for the blood of Jesus Christ or after a long day of extra work the boss invites his workers to a cold beer in the nearest bar. Even at the times of the Pharaohs the workers, who build the pyramids, got as their daily salary a fermented porridge, which contains alcohol. Nonetheless, alcohol is spread through people and history there has always been this controversy, when someone should be allowed to drink alcohol and if alcohol should be allowed at all. These two questions have to be answered by every modern government, the results are from country to country and from continent to continent different, but most of them are set around the age eighteen. There I question, is that the right age? Is it too early or maybe too late? Is 21 a better age, or just more frustrating for younger people? I think nineteen is a good age, a teenager just finished school, and is about to go to college and start making his own decisions and wants to live his life. A nineteen-year-old wants to live his life and is self-sufficient for all his activities. Choosing the right College, joining the army or even marry his current partner, he is able to decide about all these important things. The law affects him on all points, so if he does something illegal, like drive drunken he will be the one charged. Further, he got his driving license two years ago and should be aware of the difficulties of driving and adult enough to know his driving limits. Gaining all these rights at the age of eighteen he should get the right to drink too, because he is at that age where he wants to be treated as an adult but does not receive this treatment yet. So some of them start to drink out of frustration and some kind of protest against it. All these rights given to him set pressure on him and he may feel left alone, especially as soon as he gets to college. There he is at the bottom none respecting him, because he is one of the freshmen and even though he is eighteen, he does not feel like he got the power to decide for himself. This self-esteem issue and loneliness often lead to alcohol use, which is proven by a study of the National Council on alcoholism and drug Dependence. A teenager who just finished high school, where …show more content…
This fact leads to a bigger desire of the under aged students to consume alcohol and they too got the opportunity to get it from the older students. Lowering the drinking age in this case may not affect the number of people consuming alcohol, but it would affect the amount of alcohol drank by under aged drinkers, because if an eighteen year old does not know when he will be consuming alcohol next time he will be drinking as much as he can that if he gets trouble he gets it for a reason. The Dartmouth study of 2007 shows this relationship, by the fact that in the last month less underage people consumed alcohol in the States, than in Europe, but when they drank they drank more than people in European
Alcohol has been a part of many cultures throughout history and still is part of our modern culture, for example the priest drinks wine as a symbol for the blood of Jesus Christ or after a long day of extra work the boss invites his workers to a cold beer in the nearest bar. Even at the times of the Pharaohs the workers, who build the pyramids, got as their daily salary a fermented porridge, which contains alcohol. Nonetheless, alcohol is spread through people and history there has always been this controversy, when someone should be allowed to drink alcohol and if alcohol should be allowed at all. These two questions have to be answered by every modern government, the results are from country to country and from continent to continent different, but most of them are set around the age eighteen. There I question, is that the right age? Is it too early or maybe too late? Is 21 a better age, or just more frustrating for younger people? I think nineteen is a good age, a teenager just finished school, and is about to go to college and start making his own decisions and wants to live his life. A nineteen-year-old wants to live his life and is self-sufficient for all his activities. Choosing the right College, joining the army or even marry his current partner, he is able to decide about all these important things. The law affects him on all points, so if he does something illegal, like drive drunken he will be the one charged. Further, he got his driving license two years ago and should be aware of the difficulties of driving and adult enough to know his driving limits. Gaining all these rights at the age of eighteen he should get the right to drink too, because he is at that age where he wants to be treated as an adult but does not receive this treatment yet. So some of them start to drink out of frustration and some kind of protest against it. All these rights given to him set pressure on him and he may feel left alone, especially as soon as he gets to college. There he is at the bottom none respecting him, because he is one of the freshmen and even though he is eighteen, he does not feel like he got the power to decide for himself. This self-esteem issue and loneliness often lead to alcohol use, which is proven by a study of the National Council on alcoholism and drug Dependence. A teenager who just finished high school, where …show more content…
This fact leads to a bigger desire of the under aged students to consume alcohol and they too got the opportunity to get it from the older students. Lowering the drinking age in this case may not affect the number of people consuming alcohol, but it would affect the amount of alcohol drank by under aged drinkers, because if an eighteen year old does not know when he will be consuming alcohol next time he will be drinking as much as he can that if he gets trouble he gets it for a reason. The Dartmouth study of 2007 shows this relationship, by the fact that in the last month less underage people consumed alcohol in the States, than in Europe, but when they drank they drank more than people in European