The legal age to smoke should go up to 21 due to it’s ability to save lives, and make fewer people start smoking in turn making less people die from smoking. Each year over 6 million people die from tobacco products due to lung cancer and other related illnesses every cigarette you smoke takes 7-11 minutes of your life acording to the American Cancer Scociety. So it will cause you to lose more time of your life smoking than it takes you to smoke. This means that take the time it takes you to…
drive home. He hit the car that Jacqueline was in and killed her two friends and burned her face almost completly off and almost killed her. Drunk driving is a serious problem; to stop it there needs to be a heavier enforcment of the laws. The drinking age could be raised so we can stop losing innocent lives. Some people say that the laws for druck driving are working and that the laws are good enough and shouldnt be changed at all. Those people are wrong because we continue to lose innocet…
Why should we be protected? What rights are important to you? Should we be the next Hunger Game series? Let me tell you why I have a say in this current situation. I am seventeen about to be eighteen in June, voting is going to happen in November of 2016. I am a senior in high school and coming up on June 10, 2016 I will be carrying around the label of an adult. What I will start saying will matter and I have every right to state my opinion. I am getting to the young adult age and I will start…
drinking age in the United States is 21 which was increased from the age of 18. On July 17, 1984 President Ronald Reagan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act. This law ordered states to increase the legal age but each state was free to say no. If they didn’t increase the age limit they would lose 10% of its federal funding for highway public transportation. There were several states that initially declined but by 1988 every state passed the law to increase the minimum drinking age to…
the legal drinking age in the United States and whether it should be lowered or stay the same. I and several of my friends who are currently under the age of 21 want it to be dropped to 18. They feel if they are considered old enough to be able to leave home to go to college, join the military, move into their own house, and pay their own bills by the government’s standards then they should have the right to decide and control what they put into their bodies. The legal drinking age in the…
what age is a person considered to be an adult? The age of eighteen usually represents adulthood. However, the drinking age is twenty- one due to the Mothers Against Drunk Driving group. “In 1984, Congress passed the Uniform Drinking Age Act, which required states to have a minimum drinking age of 21 for all types of alcohol consumption if they wanted to receive federal highway monies” (Main). This causing the states to be persuaded into changing their drinking age. Because of drunk driving,…
There has been an ongoing debate in regards to lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 year old in The United States. Some suggest If we were to consider lowering the drinking age to 18 this could mean young people at younger ages would be able to have access to alcohol. If is not uncommon for 21 year olds to provide minors or those under 21 with alcoholic beverages. Reducing the drinking age to 18 could possibly result in younger teenagers, even as young as 13 having access to alcohol. Minors…
Introduction Ever since the United States raised its drinking age from 18 to 21, there has been an ongoing debate as to whether this regulation was fair, or even legal. Many people will argue that if a person can get drafted into the military and die for their country, it’s only fair that they should be able to legally drink a beer if they want to. On the other hand, it is well known that young people are still developing both neurologically and socially while still in their late teenage years.…
Many people would consider 18 the age of transforming into adulthood. The right to vote, buying cigarettes, and getting married are just a few of the many aspects that come along with turning eighteen years old. However, in the United States, drinking alcohol at the age of 18 is considered illegal. According to a 2014 study, the United States is just one of 12 countries whose drinking age is restricted to 21 years and older. Binge drinking, brain development, drunk related crashes, and teenagers…
Drinking age requirements should stay as put in the United States. Drinking is an activity that many don’t see as a very serious concept. Alcohol Consumption is often times deemed as something that is done during recreation. It can be assumed that because of this, alcohol is being treated as a suppressant to problems one may face. Teenagers have taken this foul recreation as a way to explore their maturity levels, but such exploration has a chance of leading to unpredictable results.…