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Is it reasonable that the legal enlisting age is only eighteen, yet the legal drinking age is twenty-one? In all fifty states of America a person is considered a legal adult at the of eighteen. Adults who are under the legal drinking age are more likely to consume more alcohol than those who are legally allowed to drink. While increasing the legal drinking age has decreased the amount of young drivers involved accidents, it has also increased the number of underage drinking in today’s young…

Teens are involved inn twenty percent of all of the wrecks that happen every year. Most people believe that we should change the way that teens get their license. There are two ways to change it one is raising the age to 18. The other is using a GDL method which means graduated driver’s license. The question is which is better. Some pros about both of them are that if you raise the age the teen would be more responsible than a sixteen-year old. If you use the GDL method people would have to…

stage of adulthood and should be treated like adults. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, establishing the legal drinking age at 21. This act says that if a state doesn’t enact a law making the minimum age to drink 21, then that state will lose 10 percent of the federal funding for state highway money. Every state enacted this law very quickly. This act was passed to reduce drunk driving in the United States, but that has stopped people from drinking…

Dee and Evans (2003) offer statistics from research done under the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS-88). These statistics show that 42% of tenth graders under the NELS-88 study had a drink within the last month, and 23.6% had drunk heavily within the past 2 weeks. Among the studied twelfth graders in 52…

Possibly taking money from the younger generation would help economically, it would also cause too damage because of teen crashes. The death rate of American teens I could see easily double or even triple because of lowering the drinking age to 18. Another con is the development of the average person’s brain stops at 25 lowering the age would insure that a lot of immature people would be out there. In the 1980s a law was passed on the drinking age to be increased to 21, while some still drink…

Children Are Overexposed To Alcohol Advertising Underage drinking is an issue in the United States that isn’t caused by any one factor, but advertising receives most of the blame. Alcohol advertising has always been a topic of discussion, and alcohol itself was banned in the United States from 1920 to 1933 (“Alcohol Prohibition Was a Failure”). In “Children Are Overexposed To Alcohol Advertising,” the author, David Jernigan argues that children see too many commercials related to the…

Estimates from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration claim every year nine hundred lives are saved by the drinking age being set at twenty-one. In 1984 the federal government passed a law that the minimum drinking age should be twenty-one in all states, and since then drunk driving rates have dropped fifty-four percent. While lives have been saved by the minimum age being raised the law is outdated because there are better safety features in vehicles and punishments for…

The reason for this has been studied on animals by Susanne Hiller-Sturmhöfel, Ph.D., a senior science editor in “The Journal of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism”, and H. Scott Swartzwelder, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center. They have published a report about their study about “Alcohol’s Effects…

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…

The National Minimum Drinking Age Act is a law that prohibits people from purchasing any alcoholic beverage until the age of 21. This law was created in 1984, and told the states that the minimum drinking age should be 21, or they would lose ten percent of their federal highway funding. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act prohibits those under the age of 21 to purchase alcoholic beverage, but it does not prohibit a person under the age of 21 to drink it, as long as he’s accompanied by an…