Beverages

around you. Many people think that sending a message at the stop light is not causing harm. Most of the time it is not, but the person not paying attention can easily hit another car. Some people think that if they have only had a few alcoholic beverages that they will be okay to ride to the gas station or a fast food restaurant. Texting and driving is said to be more dangerous than drinking and driving, but in my opinion, both are just as dangerous. Texting and driving is become worse every…

Despite everyone’s major efforts to help prevent underage consumption of alcohol, it will continue to happen. 1. The hope is that if the legal age can be lowered, is that young adults would take in to account that being able to have an alcoholic beverage is a privilege, not a right. 2. The hope is that young adults would take into consideration the danger that they could be putting themselves or someone else in when driving under the influence. 3. The hope is that young adults will learn what…

Eighteenth amendment, establishments like saloons, bars and restaurants were no longer able to legally sell alcohol. People combatted this with the creation of speakeasies, offering citizens the opportunity to purchase and consume illicit alcohol beverages. Speakeasies are remembered as the hotspot for organized crime more so than the positive legacies it left on America. Prohibition and the enormous amount of speakeasies that were created in response towards Prohibition helped drive several…

On December 5th,1933 the 21st amendment replied Prohibition. Listed as the 18th amendment, prohibition banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages for consumption. The 21st amendment also allowed each state to set its own alcohol consumption laws. Nearer to this change, states kept the drinking ages higher around 21. It wasn’t until the passing of the 26th amendment that lowered voting ages from 21 years of age to 18 years. Soon thereafter states began to lower there…

As indicated by the Official Journal of The Academy of Pediatrics liquor and tobacco are the two greatest dangers to adolescents. These two substances have an effect on adolescents and different substances that they will likely use in the future. “A preadolescent or adolescent who smokes tobacco or drinks alcohol is 65 times more likely to use marijuana, for example, than someone who abstains” (APA 2012). Commercials regularly promote different liquors and the use of these sales go up in the…

This study seeks to examine the relationship between alcohol consumption and academic performance in university students in the United Kingdom. The study surveyed a sample of 379 University of Gloucester students. The survey was presented as a voluntary general health survey for which no credit or compensation was given which also included a few questions about academic performance. Following the survey, student grade information was gathered from University databases and used as an indicator…

At 15, you can begin to find work with a wider variety of businesses. At 16, we allow young adults to join us on the roads. At 17, we allow them to fly thousands of feet in the air by themselves. At 18, the United States of America signes your imaginary adult permission slip. You are now able to: vote, smoke cigarettes, buy lottery tickets, join the armed services, check into a hotel by yourself, make your own doctor's appointments, and so much more. But in all 50 states you cannot be caught…

The consumption of alcohol should be prohibited from public use. Whenever an individual or a group of people decide to consume alcohol in a public setting they’re putting other people’s lives on the line. “DUI remains the single largest cause of automotive related fatalities in the state of California with 63.5% of motor vehicle-related deaths caused by drunk drivers” (California Drunk Driving Information). Contrariwise, despite the incrementing alcohol-related incidents some people still…

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.…

The minimum legal age for taking alcoholic drinks in the USA is 21 and it has been so since 1984. There were interventions twenty-five years ago, and since then many groups have been trying without success to reduce the age limit for the consumption of alcohol. An initiative known as Amethyst Initiative was signed in the year 2008 by a group of college presidents who were not satisfied with the minimum legal age (Williams et al. 170). There was public awareness conducted to educate the society…