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    a personal decision which is not related to age or advertising. Robert A. Levy’s passage‚ “Alcohol Ads Do Not Promote Underage Drinking”‚ argues that advertisements are not to be blamed for a person’s decision to drink. While Robert A. Levy’s passage aims to defend alcohol advertisers‚ his passage contains some solid points about the personal choices surrounding underage drinking. First‚ Robert A. Levy underlines all the responsibilities an eighteen year old has without having the right to legally

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    drink alcohol? Teenagers are particularly vulnerable to the influences of peer pressure and pop culture‚ and may be inclined to experiment. However all these choices may have a negative impact on their long term health and well being. Binge drinking is the practice of consuming large quantities of alcohol in a single session‚ usually defined as five or more drinks at one time for a

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    Young teens are gambling their life away due to their weekend binge drinking habits. You have made some great statements throughout your article‚ however‚ without any in-text referencing you are limiting the quality of your article. Drinking alcohol is an inherent part of the Australian cultural‚ passed down from generation to generation. Australians are at the forefront of the drinking culture‚ with nation is ranked as number 15 in the world for alcohol consumption. Thus to even the most unobservant

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    spend a quite a bit of time in a bar drinking milk laced with alcohol in the novel when he wrote: “Or you could [drink] the milk with knives in it‚ as we used to say‚ and this would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of dirty [gang violence]‚ and that was what we were [drinking] this evening I’m starting off the story with” (Burgess). The milk is laced with alcohol‚ and the bar is passing it off as regular milk‚ so it can be served to minors. By drinking milk‚ the characters depicted as innocent

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    heard the terms boozing‚ drinking to get drunk‚ sloshed‚ tanked‚ tipsy‚ tooted‚ and hammered. But have you ever really thought about what you were saying when you used these terms. You were saying that all that you did the night before was binge drink. Binge drinking on college campuses is something that has grown to an all time high but who’s to blame? All too often we have heard the horror stories of how kids are getting behind the wheel of a car after a night of binge drinking‚ and end up killing everyone

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    Underage‚ Underestimated An estimated 5‚000 teens under the age of 21 die each year as a result of underage drinking. Teens who consume alcohol introduce themselves to the risk of severe‚ life changing health risks. Underage drinking is a factor in nearly half of all homicides‚ suicides‚ and motor vehicle crashes for teens (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism). Almost 80% of high school students that have tried alcohol are not following the National Minimum Legal Drinking Age‚ of

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    Morning‚ the issue I have chosen is if we should raise the drinking age to 21. * Im against this issue because at the age of 18‚ you are allowed to vote‚ serve in the defence force‚ drive‚ make choices about sexual activity‚ live by yourself‚ be tried in courts as adults and receive benefits from the government. * Drinking should not be any different because it is less of a challenge to make than the above. * Raising the legal drinking age would only result in more of a problem‚ as people

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    change of the drinking age‚ being as controversial an issue as it is‚ would face many critics if lowered. However‚ if done the right way it would bring the laws of adulthood into alignment. The first issue needing to be dealt with is why the drinking age is set at 21. The American Medical Association (AMA) published the article “Facts About Youth and Alcohol‚” which gives a brief history of the drinking age in the United States. The article states that after prohibition‚ the drinking age was set

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    each year to alcohol related causes. Since they put a legal age on drinking in 1964‚ estimates of 7‚000 to 10‚000 lives have been saved each year. Yet many people still insist that it should be lowered. People that favor the side of lowering the age use no logical facts in their argument besides the revenue it would produce‚ but can you really put a price on thousands of young lives? I have been a firsthand witness to teenagers drinking and have heard my share of stories. HA. One thing that is common

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    danger of drinking when we are 21. We are allowed to do this new and exciting thing‚ drink. Then when we are done‚ we do something that doesn’t cross our minds as dangerous. We get in our cars. We’ve been doing it for 5 years now‚ we don’t even have to think about it. 10‚265 people died due to drinking and driving in 2015 alone. And 1.1 million people were arrested for driving while intoxicated. What I believe should be done to fix this problem is to change the legal ages for drinking and driving

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