National Minimum Drinking Age Act

The two main elements of this program was a regulation of alcoholic beverages, and the alteration of social environment’s values in order to reduce the demand for this kind of drinks. Restriction of alcoholic beverages has purposes such as reducing the production and advertising the alcoholic beverages, and limit the consumption of it (Ivanets & Lukomskaya, 1990). According to professors of political economic and sociology Dr. Stuckler et al. (2013, as cited in Kolves & Leo, 2014), active…

Underage drinking has been a problem in many states especially during teenagers’ college years. College students are abusing their freedom privileges by drinking excessively putting themselves in danger. Having the freedom to do anything without parent guidance has caused may teenagers to lose their lives because of immaturity and being irresponsible. Universities are trying to find ways to reduce the problem in fear that the student will be hospitalized, injured, or even dead. Deaths and…

Why has the United State not already lowered the drinking age? European countries have a drinking age of sixteen years old, while the United States has a drinking age of twenty-one years old. So why can’t the United States lower the drinking age? It’s not as though, people are going around the law to get alcohol. People in the United States have been introduced to alcohol at least one time in their life time before they hit the age of twenty-one. Many people in the United States have consumed…

are not being treated as true adults because they do not have the right to drink. In America, the minimum legal drinking age is 21 which has caused lots of argument about this topic. Because they can put their life on the line for this country, yet they are not able to make their own decisions on drinking alcohol. Despite the minimum legal drinking age being 21, it should be 18 because that is the age when a person truly becomes an adult. Turning 18 makes a person become an adult and if someone…

Underage drinking has always been a big argument on how the age limit should be lowered from 21 to 18. In 1919 the 18th amendment prohibited the sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages. Just like today, a lot of people disobeyed the fact that you can’t drink until you’re 21. With that, it made the government want to change the law. In 1933 they changed the 18 amendment to the 21st amendment. The whole point of it was not to get rid of alcohol from everyone but that only adults could use…

Issue: The current legal drinking age in the United States is 21 and not allowed at the age of 18. B. What kind of Issue: This is a major issue as underage drinking has become more popular among teenagers and the younger generations. C. Boundaries: Restrictions have been set and laws are in place that make the legal age of alcohol consumption to be 21 years of age. With this law, people still abuse it on all levels. D. Side A: Many people believe that lowering the legal drinking age would…

consumptions kills nearly 88,000 people annually(NIAAA). These deaths are preventable by not being intoxicating while driving, or not excessively drinking and damaging your body. The drinking age in the United States today is 21 years of age or older, anyone younger than this is breaking the law with some exceptions. Although it has not always been set at this age. Alcohol has had issues with the government for decades. In the 1920’s the government banned the consumption of liquor, beer,…

underage drinking. Well, today I?m going to be talking about how we can fix this problem while we have the chance by lowering the drinking age to 18 years old. By lowering the drinking age, the 18 year olds will most likely drink more responsibly, at parties and in resturaunts.. The reason I am here discussing this topic is because I believe that 18 year olds are ready for the privilege to drink and be of age. From 1960 to 2000 there were 135 studies done on traffic accidents, while the…

Driving age should be raised to 21, No one should take their driving license before that. Rising the driving age for having the driving license will help in decreasing the number of car accidents. Teenagers are addicted to their phones and to any kind of technology, they use their phones while driving and they don’t know how dangerous it is on their life and other people life while driving. Because teenagers are not mature enough, May take their eyes of the road texting the driving age should be…

The legal drinking age for military serving on active duty can vary from around the world. The minimum drinking age in the United States military is twenty-one and in other countries the minimum drinking age is eighteen. Germany has maybe the most relaxed laws for military personnel, which they only have to be eighteen to drink and can drink a maximum of two beers during the duty day. Young men and women can join the United States military at eighteen, have the right to vote, are tried as an…