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    alcohol and it facts. As a freshman attending school one should not be easily influenced by classmates and friends to do something such as drinking alcohol causing harm to their body and mind. Advertising in the electronic media and the print media they always portray drinking alcohol showing success and being part of a society that is the right thing to do. Drinking too much alcohol is not good for your body because it has a tendentious to slow you down causing illusions. It can cause hormones…

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    supervise they can control how much alcohol you consume. So if you may go over the top on your drinking then your parents are there to stop you. Most parents won’t let you kid get drunk every weekend so there should be no problem with that. The kids parents that will let them drink would let them do it even if it was illegal. It teaches kids how to drink responsibly. In Europe a lot of countries have the drinking age at thirteen , the…

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    within American society raises a question concerning the appropriate minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) for an increasingly dynamic culture. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 punished states that allowed persons below age 21 to purchase and consume alcohol by withdrawing highway funding. Consequently by 1987, all 50 states had adopted an MLDA of 21. However despite current nationwide restriction, drinking remains commonplace among a high percentage of youth. Considering…

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    As the image shown, around the world, only a few area provide safe and clean tap water, and the rest of the place the water is unsafe to drink, around the world, 844 million people which are one in ten people do not have clean water (World Health Organization & the United Nations Children’s Fund, 2017). For the people who grew up in the area like east Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, they were told when they are young that do not drink the tap water, it will cause you sick, and the…

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    what the minimum drinking age should be. Some believe that it should be eighteen and others believe that it should stay at twenty-one. Some argue that one is legal at eighteen, so people should be able to drink also. A major counter argument that people argue is that other than the United States, Iceland, Japan, South Korea, and Thailand the drinking age is eighteen (Griggs). People argue that these countries need to catch up with the rest of the world. Studies show that the drinking age should…

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    than not, people consume alcohol for countless reasons; celebrations, stress, sadness, boredom, rebellion and peer pressure are just a few. The ages between 18 to 21 year olds fall in the category of “people”. In the United States, the legal age drinking is currently twenty-one, but illegally anyone can consume alcohol. Now the main question is why? If at the age of 18 in America, people are allowed to purchase tobacco, get married without parental consent, and even join the armed forces,…

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    The law for underage drinking in oklahoma is "Minors under the age of 21 are not permitted to possess or purchase alcohol; however, consumption in a “private setting” is not prohibited by Oklahoma law. Minors may not have a blood alcohol level of more than .02%" meaning anyone under 21 is not allowed to buy anything but you are allowed to do drink in a private setting as in your house if your BAL is under 0.02. Underage drinking is and can be a very bad thing.Your body isnt fully developed…

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    The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) was adopted by Congress in 1974 to secure general wellbeing by controlling the country 's open drinking water supply. The law was altered in 1986 and 1996 and requires numerous activities to secure drinking water and its sources—streams, lakes, stores, springs, and ground water wells. (SDWA does not control private wells which serve less than 25 people.) SDWA approves the United States Environmental Assurance Agency (US EPA) to set national health based…

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    concerning the legal drinking age. People want what they cannot have, especially young adults. One thing people do not understand are the consequences that follow after making a careless decision such as, drinking under the legal drinking age. There are multiple different arguments that people have created to try and lower the legal drinking age. One thing people do not realize is that there is a variety of reasons why the law was set to be at the age of twenty-one. The legal drinking age should…

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    require 21 as the legal drinking age for purchasing alcoholic drinks (Lyons). An estimated 1,071 lives were saved on the highways alone in 1987, and more than 20,000 lives since then (Lyons). As Robert Voas states, “The 21 law is predicated on the fact that drinking is more dangerous for youth because they’re still developing mentally and physically, and they lack experience and are more likely to take risks.” Research shows that back when some states still had the minimum drinking age of 18,…

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