Legal drinking age

The Alcohol Drinking Age Should be Increased The idea of raising the alcoholic drinking age protects young people. Indeed they are still incapable of accepting responsibilities included in the drinking of alcohol. In fact, according to DO SOMETHING.org, 5,000 people under the age of twenty-one die each year from alcohol-related car crashes, homicides, suicides, alcohol poisoning, and other injuries such as falls, burns, and drowning. In contrast, lowering the alcoholic drinking age from 21 to…

Putting thought into raising or lowering the drinking age can sometimes be tricky. There are a few reasons why I could see people wanting to lower it but over all many more negatives when discussing this topic. Different opinions go into this discussion from kids under 18 to adults above 21. Although kids may think alcohol is all fun and games but lowering the drinking age to under 21 will cause issues with people not knowing their limits, drunk driving, and abusive behavior. Although some…

Underage drinking: A serious Problem in Society Underage drinking is a huge problem in the world, by the age of 15; approximately 50% of teenagers have had at least one drink (Too Smart to Start). Not only is this “disease” affecting people all over the world, it is on an upwards trend and an increasing amount of teenagers are joining in. Thousands of people every year are negatively impacted due to the effects of alcohol. Whether one is underage, or they are in the legal age…

follow. No matter what age someone is, they should always follow the law. Laws were made to protect us. There is no real reason for someone to break a law and potentially hurt themselves or someone around them. One law that everyone (including myself when I grow older) should take seriously is no driving under the influence. The first person to be arrested for drunk driving was George Smith in London in 1897. In 1910, New York became one of the first states to create the no drinking and…

Alcohol has been around for thousands of years. It is often use for religious and cultural reasons, but for some reason the American society views alcohol as a taboo beverage, so much so that they have made the minimum drinking age to twenty-one, the highest minimum drinking age in the world. Alcohol has been used by virtually every culture and continent on earth. According to a study published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, alcohol has been around for at least 6,000 years.…

Literature Review Australian youth in general are pleased with their health, yet evidence suggests that rising rates of mental illness, sexually transmitted diseases and risk taking behaviour (especially binge drinking) are of immense concern. The consequent burden of disease attributed to this phenomenon needs to be a priority of all health promotion stakeholders. Discuss Introduction A majority of young people rate their health as good, very good or excellent (Australian Institute of Health…

Drinking can cause harm to many people, there are risks to drinking as well as rules. The rule in the U.S. is that you cannot purchase or consume alcohol until the age of twenty one, while in Europe you are allowed to consume alcohol at the age of eighteen and consume at the age of sixteen as long as there is an adult present. Drinking ages are set because of the number of accidents that have occurred in the past like car accidents, suicides, crime rates and even health related problems.…

How do advertisers promote alcohol products and their use through the internet and social media? Are young people likely to be affected by their advertising strategies? Advertisements plays a huge part of our lives as it manipulates, or show a satisfaction moment that captures the feeling when purchasing a product. With this is mind, it does give us, as consumers, the reasons why we should purchase that brand (Lee, Choi, Quilliam & Cole, 2009). However to manipulate in buying a product,…

citizens. The law concerning when it’s legal for people to drink has been stirring up major controversy for decades. To ensure everyone’s well-being people need to be aware of the laws in place and any possible amendments that would be safer for the public. An organization called Choose Responsibility is convinced the current minimum legal drinking age of 21 (MLDA 21) is ineffective and should…

there are records in history that inform us of this. Sixty-one percent of the one hundred and ninety countries have set the drinking age at eighteen. The United States and eleven other countries have a MLDA (minimal legal drinking age) of twenty-one years old, this is the highest MLDA of all the countries where it is legal to drink (although some areas of India have drinking ages as high as twenty five and thirty years old). Alcohol is banned in sixteen countries, all of them being Muslim…