Drinking culture

1970 to 1976 in America the drinking age was lower from 21 to 18. However, the country paid a major price for doing this. There was a huge rise in the amount of teenager and young adults dieing in car crashes on highway due to drinking. (Main) This information was found in article call “Underage Drinking and The Drinking Age” written by Carla Main for Public Review in Jun/Jul 2009 magazine. In this article she argues the benefits of maintain the current drinking age at 21 In Main article…

purpose of this briefing note is to discuss issues created from the debate on whether to change the legal drinking age from 18 to 21, while making suitable recommendations as requested from the Premier. As the legal drinking age is 18 in all of the states and territories in Australia, it has created a negative drinking culture that has communities concerned. The negative culture surrounding drinking has caused movements to form, with the primary goal to change how Australian’s drink and to…

Australians and concerned parents that Australian's should reduce their amount of alcohol consumption. By combining informal slang in a particular ordering in her opinion piece Ms Lang, intends to convey to its audience that binge drinking has become too much a part of Australian culture. Using various tonal shifts from confrontational, to casual, to serious, to frustrated. In the introductory section, Lang employs various language features in order to convince her audience of her intention…

How do advertisers promote alcohol products and their use through the internet and social media? Are young people likely to be affected by their advertising strategies? Advertisements plays a huge part of our lives as it manipulates, or show a satisfaction moment that captures the feeling when purchasing a product. With this is mind, it does give us, as consumers, the reasons why we should purchase that brand (Lee, Choi, Quilliam & Cole, 2009). However to manipulate in buying a product,…

In 1984, President Reagan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act in order to help with the drunk driving epidemic that groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving had argued was the fault of drivers between the ages of 18 and 21. This law was one of the 39 suggestions made to the President by the Presidential Commission Against Drunk Driving, amoung the suggestions were youth education courses about drinking responsibly, harsher punishments for driving under the influence of alcohol that…

Following, Dengenhardt and colleagues’s survey ( 2013, p.1) showed that 52% of boys and 34% of girls between 14 and 15 years reported binge drinking past week of experiment and 90% of male and 70% of female early onset teenage drinkers continued their binge drinking pattern till their young adulthood time. Consequently, Jennison (2004, p.659) also verified college binge drinkers are more likely to develop one or more alcohol related diagnostic criteria such as alcohol abuse and dependence in…

It's alarming that binge drinking is so prevalent in the college campus environment and is often used as a means of stress and anxiety relief. Although alcohol is considered a depressant, it also has the capability to amplify a person's emotional state. Once alcohol is consumed, it gets absorbed by the bloodstream and later enters the cerebral cortex--the part of the brain responsible for thought and action, and disrupts…

states lowered their drinking age to 18. In 1984 Congress passed the Uniform Drinking Age Act, this required states to have a MLDA of 21 in order to receive money to fix highways (Main 35). The governments wish for states to raise the drinking age was because of increased driving under the influence in young adults. Now in the 2000’s underage drinking, binge drinking, and alcohol related deaths are occurring more often (“Binge”). These incidences are more apparent…

The minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) of 21 was set in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan. The goal of MLDA of 21 was to protect children from the negative effects of alcohol. However, raising the drinking age has created opposite results in teen drinking habits. Making alcohol inaccessible to younger people actually results in more excessive drinking when the opportunity arises. Alcohol related incidents are responsible for an average of 88,000 deaths a year, “account[ing] for 1 in 10 deaths…

How is “How does the legal drinking age affect the number of young adult car accidents” a Good Research Question “In 2013, 10,076 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (31%) of all traffic related-death in the United States. (CDC) According to the National Road Safety Program, 29 out of 1000 accidents were related to alcohol in Germany, that is 2.9%. (BMVI) There is a shockingly high difference in the percentage, which is even harder to…