Statistics of deaths due to teen drinking are frightening, showing that lowering the drinking age to eighteen would greatly reduce these statistics.
M.Szalavitz. Stats Senior Fellow, April 29, 2005, Underage Drinking, retrieved October 24, 2009
from http://alcoholnews.org/underage_drinking.html
M.Szalavitz, Stats Senior Fellow, April 29,2005, Underage drinking, retrieved October 24,2009 from Http://alcoholnews.org/underage_drinking.html
The United States has the highest legal drinking age, in fact out of 42 countries most of those have a legal drinking age of 18 or lower.
Legal Drinking Ages
| | | |Drinking Ages | | | |
| |15 |16 |18 |19 |20 |21 |
|Number of Countries |1 |5 |33 |1 |1 |1 |
Wikipedia,Wikipedia.com,October 23, 2009, Legal