Have you ever wondered why when‚ you’re young no drinking especially no driving? teen drinking and driving‚a short nonfiction article by the CDC. Basically‚facts on how drinking and driving as a teen can and will get you in a serious car crash. You’re more likely to drink and drive at a certain ages. At age 18‚ male‚ you are at about 18%a year are going to drink and drive. So you are more likely to get into a accident but that’s only 18%. If you drink and drive at 16 you are less likely to get into
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According to ProCon.org in 2016‚ did you know that traffic accidents related to drinking are most common to new drinkers regardless of the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA)? Or‚ that in countries with the MLDA 18‚ there is a huge decrease in drunk driving accidents than in the USA? I believe that you can drink responsibly at eighteen; therefore‚ the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen. I believe the MLDA should be eighteen because when you are considered an adult and have many other responsibilities
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Underage Drinking The youth at this days is drinking much more than the youth in the past and this is a big problem because the world is having more criminality and deaths because of this. The number of women since 1977 to 1993 tripled and there are more men drinking than women. 5000 adolescents a year are death because of alcohol. A 60 percent of college women who had sexual transmitted diseases where on the influence of alcohol‚ 90 percent of the campus rapes were because or the victim or the
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enough to drink. The legal age to join the military is 18 years old. Clearly someone along the way thought that was mature enough to go fight for our country. Yet‚ not old enough to have a beer afterwards. I am a firm believer that the legal age for drinking should be 21 years old. However‚
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Understanding Why Opinion Really Matters... By Brodie Lane That we do have an ugly drinking culture in Australia and we need to face up to it: We believe we do have an ugly drinking culture in Australia. In Victoria alone‚ alcohol-related harm is costing the government $4.3 billion dollars each year. This includes road accidents and health problems. The effects of excessive alcohol are not new. Also not new are the health‚ safety and lifestyle risks that alcohol can cause‚including‚ saying
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enforcement of laws would also play a major role in preventing teen drunk driving. As stated by the Nation Highway Traffic Safety Administration‚ it is estimated that 24‚560 lives have been saved by minimizing the drinking age laws since 1975. There are important reasons for laws‚ such as a drinking age. For instance the NIAAA explains that the rate of fatal crashes among alcohol-involved drivers between 16 and 20 years old is more than twice the rate for
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Benefits of Drinking Tea Tea contains antioxidants. Like the Rust-Oleum paint that keeps your outdoor furniture from rusting‚ tea’s antioxidants protect your body from the ravages of aging and the effects of pollution. Tea has less caffeine than coffee. Coffee usually has two to three times the caffeine of tea (unless you’re a fan of Morning Thunder‚ which combines caffeine with mate‚ an herb that acts like caffeine in our body). An eight-ounce cup of coffee contains around 135 mg caffeine;
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immense control over all body functions. A human brain has not fully developed until the age of 25‚ which is why the legal drinking age should not be at the age of 21. It gives off harmful alterations in the functions of the development of the brain and therefore doesn’t give the brain the full amount of time that it needs to grow. While the brain is still developing‚ drinking a heavy amount may cause damages to certain brain functions and have lasting health effects. Some examples to body functions
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The Vessel terminating in the forepart of a bull (no. 1989.281.11) found in Central Anatolia circa 15th-13th century B.C. was made of silver. This was a product of the Hittite culture. It is a horn shaped drinking vessel decorated as a bull with horns kneeling. The bull’s head is delicately molded focusing on details such as the bull’s eye lid creases and folded skin. The vessel was not only made to stand vertically as a cup using its horns as support but also sideways‚ as depicted in the museum
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as teens feel that the drinking age should be lowered because of the reason above. If in the eye of law at the age of 18 we are considered grown ups and is given the rights to vote‚ the right to get married and the right to legally buy our own property/home; so why not give us the right to drink. Most 18 year olds surround themselves with older people‚ most likely around the ages 20-25. As we see it’s not to far from 18 but still have different rights when it comes to drinking. An organization
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