Drinking
Alcohol...alcohol is everywhere in the United States. Commercials on tv show drinking to be fun all the time, but they don’t tell you what really happens when you drink all the time. Drinking can be fun, but when you start drinking every weekend your health starts going bad. According to MADD almost every 90 seconds a person is involved in a drunk driving accident. The U.S.A’s legal drinking age has caused many people to want to change the drinking age to 18.
Lowering the drinking age to eighteen would be a bad idea, the U.S. has already lowered the drinking age once and realized it didn’t work out like planned. Having this experience once was bad enough. The people need to realize how bad drinking actually is. All the health problems it already causes and the fact that an 18 year old has just started their life as an adult and their brain is just getting done developing. Changing the drinking age is going to have a ups and downs like everything does but people need to learn from history. The legal drinking age in the United States did get changed one point in time to 18. According to MADD in the late 60’s and early 70’s 29 states lowered their drinking age to 18. The results were happening immediately. Alcoholic crashes and fatalities increased dramatically in those states. There were even crashes called blood borders; which is when younger people would drive to those states where the drinking age was lowered and would crash on their way back home. As the result of all these crashes 16 of those states changed the age back to 21 by 1983. The President of Commision on Drunk Driving recommended the national age be 21 and President Reagan agree on July 17, 1984 to make the legal age of drinking officially 21. Known as the Uniform Drinking Age Act mandating all states make the legal age 21 within five years. By 1988 all states legal age for drinking was 21. Health issues for drinking is already a problem. The webMD says that there are 12 health risks for chronic
Lowering the drinking age to eighteen would be a bad idea, the U.S. has already lowered the drinking age once and realized it didn’t work out like planned. Having this experience once was bad enough. The people need to realize how bad drinking actually is. All the health problems it already causes and the fact that an 18 year old has just started their life as an adult and their brain is just getting done developing. Changing the drinking age is going to have a ups and downs like everything does but people need to learn from history. The legal drinking age in the United States did get changed one point in time to 18. According to MADD in the late 60’s and early 70’s 29 states lowered their drinking age to 18. The results were happening immediately. Alcoholic crashes and fatalities increased dramatically in those states. There were even crashes called blood borders; which is when younger people would drive to those states where the drinking age was lowered and would crash on their way back home. As the result of all these crashes 16 of those states changed the age back to 21 by 1983. The President of Commision on Drunk Driving recommended the national age be 21 and President Reagan agree on July 17, 1984 to make the legal age of drinking officially 21. Known as the Uniform Drinking Age Act mandating all states make the legal age 21 within five years. By 1988 all states legal age for drinking was 21. Health issues for drinking is already a problem. The webMD says that there are 12 health risks for chronic