Prescriptive: Lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 increases the risk of underage and binge drinking which results in deadly car accidents. Ages 18 and under are physically immature to handle alcohol. Enforcing the age 21 law reduces the risk of traffic crashes and it saves lives. By lowering the drinking age to 18 will trigger the urge of wanting to drink for younger teenagers. Therefore‚ the drinking age is ought to stay at 21. The 21 legal drinking age law forces young people to drink
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College Presidents call for debate on lowering the drinking age to 18 BCOM/275 May‚ 20 2012 Betty Bernstein College Presidents call for debate on lowering the drinking age to 18 I read the article “College Presidents call for debate on lowering the drinking age to 18”‚ which was published in the Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly Newsletter on September 8‚ 2008. In my opinion‚ there is not a lot of value and credibility to this article. John McArdell‚ the President of Middlebury College
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Is It Time to Lower the Drinking Age? Over 5000 deaths occur from alcohol-related actions each year (McCardell). Binge drinking‚ a major issue among underage drinkers‚ is defined as having at least 5 drinks on one occasion (Kiesbye 21). The US is one of just four countries with an age requirement of 21. Only Islamic countries have more restrictive drinking laws. (Kiesbye 26). The minimum age of 21 passed Congress in 1984 (Balko). Vermont fought the law concerning the minimum age all the way
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A Forbidden Fruit In the United States of America citizens are subjected to many laws‚ some definitely necessary‚ while others are not well founded. One law which is not well founded is the law that prevents anyone younger than twenty one from drinking. This law clearly states that you must be twenty-one years old in order to consume or purchase any alcoholic beverages. The citizens of the United States are considered to be legal adults at the age of eighteen. Despite many responsibilities‚ why
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Vaughn Mrs. Kachurak Eng. 102-001 2-4-2013 Lower the Drinking Age: End America’s Addiction Although alcohol has been around for quite some time‚ it has recently begun to pose a problem in the past few decades‚ specifically in America. Terrible alcohol related incidences occur every day in America and can be so easily avoided if the proper laws and information are applied. Alcohol consumption‚ especially in the case of underage drinking‚ is one of the most crippling problems in the United States
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drink. Those are the types of arguments the proponents for the eighteen drinking age will generally give‚ but there is more to consider when it comes to the topic of alcohol. In an article published in The Los Angeles Times‚ Shari Roan explains the pros and cons of the drinking age. She states that “… [there are] approximately 1‚700 alcohol related deaths in the United States among college students each year” and if the drinking age gets set to eighteen‚ this number is more than likely to rise. Alcohol
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can do on your eighteenth birthday‚ it does not include the legal consumption of alcohol. This is because in the United States the legal drinking age is twenty-one years old. The legal drinking age is an argument that is often debated and I believe that the legal drinking age should be lowered to eighteen years of age. In the United States‚ the legal drinking age has been debated for years. According to the United States‚ when a child turns eighteen they are considered an adult in this country
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Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is the most common eating disorder in the worldwide. The disorder impacts people of all ages including children and adolescents‚ races‚ and levels of education and income. People don’t even do moderate level of exercise‚ do not avoid eating food‚ and keep piling fats in their body thus number of unhealthy people are rising every day. As these people tend to be disgusted by their bodies and distraught about their overeating. People with binge eating disorder are frequently
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Binge Eating Disorder Binge Eating Disorder only affects about 5% of the population. Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is an overeating disorder but unlike bulimia nervosa‚ binge eaters don ’t vomit after they binge eat they retain the food they eat. BED is a relatively new disorder as it was just accepted by FDA. Binge Eating Disorder commonly means eating mass amounts of food. Binge Eating Disorder is usual caused by stress or depression. BED is different than bulimia nervosa because binge eaters
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concerning the legal drinking age remaining at twenty-one or being lowered to eighteen. John J. Miller‚ backed up with about one-hundred college presidents and chancellors‚ strongly believes that the legal drinking age of twenty one has failed and is not working. However‚ there is research and statistical data that suggests lowering the drinking age would cause several car related accidents‚ potentially increase a teen’s vulnerability of alcoholism‚ and increase binge drinking. John McCardell‚ a
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