Draft #4 Increasing the drinking age from 18 to 21 caused a lot of debate. Many believed it would have done more good than it actually has done. Lesley Stahl‚ the CBS journalist‚ once said‚ "It hasn’t reduced or eliminated drinking. It has simply driven it underground‚ behind closed doors‚ into the most risky and least manageable of settings." As Stahl states‚ the drinking is “underground” to an extent and very visible in universities. Underage drinking‚ and drinking in general is very visible
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The Minimum National Drinking Age should remain at 21 I. Introduction: Starting in 1970 21 states reduced the minimum drinking age to 18. Another 8 reduced it to 19 or 20. However‚ these states noticed increases in alcohol-related fatalities among teenagers and young adults. As a result‚ of the 29 states that had lowered their drinking age‚ 24 raised the age again between 1976 and 1984. By 1984‚ only three states allowed 18-year-olds to drink all types of alcoholic liquor. The enactment of
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Underage drinking is one of the biggest problems facing America today. Teens who abuse alcohol often turn to a life of crime‚ or suffer mental or physical breakdowns. In many cases the teen may even die from attempt suicide or car accident. In Montgomery Country two teenager was killed in a car accident‚ after leaving a party drunk and driving over the speed limits. Knowing that they were underage‚ if the father who hosted the party had never let the teens drink‚ then the two death could have been
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Binge drinking is a modern epithet for drinking alcoholic beverages with an intention of becoming intoxicated by heavy consumption of alcohol over a short period of time. Binge drinking is out of control in many college town campuses. The actual act of drinking alcohol is not necessarily the big issue here; it is the way people are drinking it whether they are legally old enough or not. The issue is binge drinking of college students mostly or anyone really. Drinking alcohol can have many consequences
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underage drinking? 1 in 6 teens binge drinking and cause accidents. In the Journal of Alcohol and Drug Educations that compared with those of legal age‚ a significantly higher percentage of students under age 21 were heavy drinkers‚ and caused more accidents to themselves then what first thought of (Smith and Smith‚ 1 and 2) . Most students or “underage drinkers” don’t think about what could happen if they did drink — leading themselves into many different issues and riskier trouble. When drinking‚ most
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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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Drinking While Driving Ever lost someone close or heard of someone who lost their life to drunk driving? Drinking and driving is becoming a serious problem that is spiraling out of control. If awareness of the true danger of drinking and driving doesn’t get out to the public America could be facing serious problems. These problems can result in the average life expectancy of a person becoming smaller and smaller. Each year this situation becomes a bigger problem that affects not only the drunk
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response time. These skills are vital to driving a car. So‚ common sense is if you drink you will be impaired‚ if you then try to drive a car‚ your driving will be impaired. Easy to say but so many people ignore the law and the basic common sense of not drinking and driving. Interesting that there is sort of a rule of threes: three cans of beer‚ three glasses of wine or three mixed drinks within one hour and the normal person would generally be considered drunk and it only takes one drink per hour after
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My View on Lowering the Voting Age Voting‚ in my opinion‚ should not be lowered to 16 from the already legal age of 18. Coming from a 16 year old myself‚ I believe we are not capable of deciding something so drastically important. Yes‚ 16 is where freedoms begin‚ such as being able to get a driver’s license‚ or begin working in the workforce. But voting‚ I think might be too much or even not enough for our age. First of all‚ at the middle age between adulthood and teenhood‚ 16‚ decisions aren’t
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college‚ and gaining freedom. When turning this age‚ you are allowed to join the military‚ get married and receive all the rights and responsibilities of an adult. However‚ having a wedding at this age means that during the celebration‚ one is not allowed to share a glass of Champaign during the toasts because the drinking age is 21. The United States is one of the few countries in the world to have such a high legal drinking age. Therefore the drinking age should be lowered to 18 because you are able
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