Drinking

years, one of the common topics of discussion is the drinking age. Some think the drinking age should be lowered, while a large handful of people think that the drinking age should remain the same. In this paper you will learn the pros and cons of lowering the drinking age. For every pro for lowering the drinking age, there is a con. “When the drinking age became eighteen, however, college drinking became legal and open” (Poe 17). When the drinking age was eighteen, nobody tried to hide it.…

Second, the minimum drinking age of 21 reduces deaths associated with alcohol. “Underage drinking is a leading contributor to death from injuries, which are the main cause of death for people under age 21” (“Underage Drinking” National Institutes of Health). “Over 300,000 deaths have been prevented as a result of reductions in alcohol-impaired driving, more than the reduction attributed to increases in the use of safety belts, airbags, motorcycle, and bicycle helmets combined” (“Rebecca…

The drinking age has been a common topic of discussion for years now. Both sides have very valid arguments. That being if we should keep the drinking age in the United States at 21 or if we should lower it to 18. As I see it, I have no problem with how the drinking age is now, but I feel like the United States would work better with the age being lowered to 18. There are many reason why the drinking age was raised to 21. First of all, “the goal of the change in drinking age from 18-21…

legal 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…

Introduction Underage drinking is the most known-unknown problem in the United States. Underage drinking is no stranger to anyone, but the amount of effect it has goes widely unnoticed. Alcohol is the most abused drug among the youth, more than tobacco or cannabis. According to a National survey on drug and alcohol abuse by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration or SAMSHA thirty-five percent of fifteen-year old children had drank alcohol at least once before, by the time…

the United States, the minimum legal drinking age is twenty-one. Lowering the drinking age to eighteen would cause crimes and personal damages that are caused by alcohol abuse. Keeping the legal drinking age of 21 has helped; the effects of drinking at an early age on the brains development, lowered drunk driving and keep young people safer. Statistics prove that the legal drinking age should remain at the age of twenty-one in the United States. First, drinking alcohol at a young age can cause…

Let’s Not Go That Low Alcohol consumptions kills nearly 88,000 people annually(NIAAA). These deaths are preventable by not being intoxicating while driving, or not excessively drinking and damaging your body. The drinking age in the United States today is 21 years of age or older, anyone younger than this is breaking the law with some exceptions. Although it has not always been set at this age. Alcohol has had issues with the government for decades. In the 1920’s the government banned the…

My topic is about why drunk driving is dangerous and very risky since the majority of deaths from traffic accidents are by people who drove under the effects of alcohol in my opinion people should not drive drunk because they can not only kill themselves they can cause many accidents including the death of many more people. if you are going to drink alcohol and you have to drive you have to be responsible and drink little because you can get many problems in the high way one quote that support…

involve minors and can be linked to drinking underage. Every state in the union has a legal drinking age of twenty-one years old. The purpose of this law is to keep minors out of danger: away from drunk driving, alcohol poisoning, and injuring the brain before it is fully developed. Unsafe situations are created by the current laws by it’s ineffectiveness to eliminate underage drinking, driving while drunk, and deaths from alcohol poisoning. Lowering the drinking age to eighteen years old, is an…

In 1984, Ronald Reagan signed the Uniform Drinking Age Act that required all states to adopt twenty-one as the legal drinking age within five years. Since then, the drinking age has been debated and questioned by many different groups all across the country. Many people have their own opinion on whether the age should be raised, lowered, or remain unchanged; but each group of supporters agree that the age minimum provides safety to citizens. While the current law has done this, there is still…