Legal drinking age

the story of another college student dying due to excessive use of alcohol? More than 1800 students die each year due to alcohol related causes. After researching this topic, I have come to the conclusion that the drinking age being 21 years of age is dangerous. The legal age for drinking alcohol should be lowered to eighteen years old; As an eighteen year old, they are considered adults, they can serve in the army, and they can already use tobacco. II. First i'm going to talk about how…

According to Traci L. Toomey, Carolyn Rosenfeld, and Alexander C. Wagenaar in “The Minimum Legal Drinking Age: History, Effectiveness, and Ongoing Debate” from Alcohol Health and Research World, the Minimum Legal Drinking Age (MLDA) should stay up at 21 to help prevent alcohol-related problems among youth such as, injury and death, second-hand effects, and health issues. Science is and has contributed to the study of the effect of the MLDA laws. After states lowered the MLDA from 21 in the…

Eighteen Years In Belgium, the drinking age is fifteen years old, meaning teenage McLovin and his friends from the Blockbuster film Superbad would have had no problem purchasing alcohol if they lived there. Unfortunately, they lived in the United States which has one of the highest legal drinking ages in the world at twenty-one. The majority of the world, however, has settled on a drinking age of eighteen. This difference is due in part to the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984,…

It’s Time to Rethink the Drinking Age (The Harbrace Guide to Writing, 2013, p. 29). The Amethyst Initiative (AI) was founded by John McCardell, a former history professor and President of Middlebury College in Vermont, and a group of U.S. college presidents and university chancellors in 2008. The AI is an organization whose mission is to call on the United States Congress to reconsider the minimum drinking age of 21, which formed the basis of the National Drinking Age Act of 1984…

somebody brings up drinking in the US today, society visualizes it as an awful affair. On the other hand, adults responsibly drink alcohol most of the time and see it as a luxury. What if the nation could have drinking be this way for everyone? It could be. Lowering the drinking age will not only help cut down on binge drinking, but also teach teens and young adults the proper way to drink. Limiting Adults and Family Bonds The official age of an adult is 18. In other countries, drinking ages…

strict policy against underage drinking. On July 17, 1984 The National Minimum Drinking Age Act was passed by the United States Congress. This act permitted anyone under the age of 21 to purchase or consume any alcohol in all 50 states. This act has had quite an impact of over the years on America’s youth. It has led the public to question whether this law should lower the drinking age. The government has responded by actually taking a look into reducing the drinking age from 21 to 18. Many…

of these laws is being broken every day and its bringing a lot of problems for teenagers and their parents. This law is underage drinking and there are a lot of scary stories that we hear every day about teenagers getting injured and killed for drunk driving. Even when people know drinking will cause a lot of problems, there is still a big argument about the drinking age being lowered to 18 or stay at 21. Many activities…

Drinking ages have been or many years around the world up for debate for many years and across the globe. America’s states alone have changed their drinking age multiple times from 21 to 18, 19, or 20 and now have finally settled on 21 thanks to the passing of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984. However, this has not silenced the underlying grumble of the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) being too high and not without good reason. The current drinking age should be lowered to 18 as…

that at the age of eighteen anyone should have the right to drink, if they want to. Fulton addresses that at the age of eighteen in the United States you are able to vote, pay taxes, own a gun, go off to war, get married and become a legal parent, etc., but are not able to take a sip of a beer. The article is aimed at the people in the United States who believe the drinking age should not be lowered back to eighteen. He uses Europe as an example to show that having a low drinking age does not…

wellbeing. At the moment, high school and college kids observe hazardous binge drinking as a rite of passage. The present law, approved within all 50 states in the 1980s, was proposed to reduce the amount of traffic accidents and deaths caused by immature intoxicated drivers. It has accomplished that, but a stronger seatbelt and D.U.I. regulations have contributed to the diminish, too. Boosting the legal age has not abridged drinking, it has purely galvanized it to go secretive…