Drinking

a result of drinking and driving. Families are torn apart and are left picking up the pieces. Drinking has always been a danger in society, but in todays world more than ever. The arguments of lowering the drinking age to eighteen are nothing new. Proponents of this come often with the same arguments every time. I don’t believe the drinking age should be changed to eighteen years of age. Americans should eliminate the thought that our drinking age should be modified because drinking leads to…

By the end of the year, approximately 5,000 underage kids will die of drinking related causes and 190,000 others will be seriously injured. Society and many organizations are constantly trying to fight these unnecessary tragedies and Cal Poly can too. The first step is to realize that underage drinking will happen regardless of rules and regulations stating otherwise. Sober supervision of drinking activities is one of the ways that we can assure preventable incidents can be avoided. However, Cal…

So after I watched the “Lives Affected Video” I started to think about how dangerous drunk and drinking drivers really are. As I started to think some more I realized that I think there are more drunk and drinking drivers than we think and that we are lucky that more people haven’t gotten hurt. There are impacts that drunk drivers have on innocent people and that they are in danger just because a drunk man/woman decided to get on the road ways and drive him/herself home. If an accident did occur…

poisoning, homicides, burns, falls, and drownings("Under-aged”). However, think of the young men and women who have died to fend for our country, and not being able to have that first drink with their father, or go out and drink with their friends. Yes drinking can be dangerous in situations, but I believe that if a young man or woman can go die for their country, or even be able to make the important decision on who will lead our country. Then at the age of 18 we should be able to drink alcohol…

controversy over the topic of establishing a policy to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18. Underage drinking is currently a very prevalent issue in the United States, so this political problem has a great impact on public health issues as well. There are approximately 5,000 underage adolescents that die from car wrecks, other injuries, homicides and suicides that are associated with underage drinking ("APIS - Highlight on Underage Drinking"). Laws restricting access to alcohol by youth was…

national state law for legal drinking is age 21. This was determined in 1984 when Congress passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act. It was stated that if they could not upon the agreement age of 21; all states would have faced a 10 percentage decline to their federal highway funding. According to the National Institution on Alcohol, since that law was passed drunk driving accidents have drastically dropped by a total of 50 percent. Many people believe that the drinking age is fine; while…

In a numerous amount of countries, the drinking age is lower than the age here in America. The majority of the public thinks that the drinking age should stay at 21, but others say that it should be lowered to 18. Within this essay, the information will manifest, which side of this argument is more accurate. Some people want to decrease the drinking age to 18. One reason that the drinking should be decreased is that 18 is the age of adulthood; adults should have the right to make their own…

Bibliography: Should the drinking age be lowered to 18? "Drinking While Young." State Legislatures 34.6 (2008): 11. Health Reference Center Academic. Web. 2 Nov. 2015. . This article, although short, contains very important information. Drinking under the age of 21 is obviously illegal, and as a result it leads teens to drink in private due to the fact that they are not allowed to drink publicly. The problem with this is that drinking in private often leads to heavy drinking, which has…

The argument of whether the legal drinking age should be lowered has been in great opposition. According to Brandon Grigg’s article “Should The U.S Lower Its Drinking Age”, published in CNN. A 2007 Gallup poll found that 77% of Americans opposed lowering the drinking age in all states to 18. I'm in favor of that and believe that lowering the drinking age will result in more harm than good. Gregg also talks about how a couple of decades ago the legal drinking age was raised from 18 to 21.…

The drinking laws within the United States should be lowered as the US has much stricter laws regarding alcohol consumption compared to other countries, according to other laws the age of eighteen is considered a legal adult, and allowing teens of eighteen and older to drink in a safe controlled environment can decrease unsafe drinking activities. First let's talk about why the legal drinking age in the United States is 21. In 1984 the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was passed by Ronald…