Drinking

States is underage drinking. Ever since the legal drinking age was raised to 21 in all states, it has become the most researched law in history (Dean-Mooney). Some people believe that lowering the drinking age can help solve this problem, some do not. Every year about 1,100 underage youth die in alcoholrelated car crashes and another 300 in nontraffic alcoholrelated car crashes (Main). The problem is obvious but the solution is not. Many think that lowering the legal drinking age will change the…

Both of the videos that were shown in class deal with drinking and driving or texting and driving and the major negative consequences that they can lead to. In the video “Coppell Shattered Dreams 2017” it talks about how all of the little moments in your life lead you to one life altering moment. The teenagers in the video lived ordinary lives, they attended school as high school seniors, hanged out with friends, imagined and planned what prom would be like. Overall, they experienced the high…

drowning”( “Underaged-Drinking”).Newly legal adults hold an ample amount of accidents that happen already.Why would we accumulate the risk of accidents by depreciating the drinking age? In chance,there will inhabit a risk of exposing illegal habits to younger drinkers.The drinking age should not be lowered because of the negative effects to a person's lifestyle. Alcohol has negative effects on the still developing body and brain.After the research they concluded,”Drinking…

In 1984 the legal drinking age was raised from 18 to 21; Keeping this in mind Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that “people aged 12 to 20 years drink 11% of all alcohol consumed in the United States” (“Fact Sheets - Underage Drinking.”). This rise in age not only blew up within society and media but also created a platform for a new debate over the 21 vs 18 drinking age. A plethora of people all across the nation have joined the debate and added their two cents to the argument.…

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…

consumption increases with age but teens are going to drink whether it is legal or not. Lowering the drinking age would minimize illegal underage drinking. Underage drinkers usually binge drink which is unhealthier than casual drinking. Binge drinking occurs since teens are not allowed to drink, therefore they drink more alcohol in a shorter period of time while they have that opportunity. Also if the drinking age was lowered and teens did not have to worry about being caught, they could drink…

In Chinese poet Li Bei’s, “Drinking Alone By Moonlight,” he tells a story of what he embarks on when night falls. Among flowers, he has a jug of wine, and no friends by his side; he pours his cup and makes a toast to the moon. He faces his shadow and offers the moon a drink; unfortunately the moon seems to always to decline. In the technological world we live in today, there is an order of for how things are done, especially when it comes to drinking. Most people, old and young, tend to go to…

Underage drinking is a very common problem. Underage drinking has been around for some time and parents are still debating whether or not they should let their kids drink or not. The answer is they shouldn’t. Many adults already let their kids drink in their home, but they don’t know the negative effects on underage drinking. From examining alcohol related accidents, and data from underage drinkers, it is clear that parents shouldn’t allow underage drinking at home. Accidents that result from…

Minimum Legal Drinking Age Turning 18 is similar to a rite of passage in today’s society, an entirely new world is opened up once someone is 18 years old. People can now make numerous life-altering decisions because they are legally adults, however, drinking alcohol is not one of these new adult decisions available to 18 year olds. Drinking alcohol is just as life changing as smoking a cigarette; the minimum smoking age is only 18, so why is the drinking age 21? People argue that the drinking…

The discussion of changing the minimum legal drinking age back to 18 has been a “reverent” discussion since the minimum legal drinking age was changed to 21 years old. We, the United States, has one of the highest minimum legal drinking ages in world where it is legal to drink and this is a good property we have. The minimum drinking age should not be legally lowere due to the medical risks, hidden dangers, and the developments that are still happening to your body during this time. There are…