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    Alcohol: Lowering the Legal Drinking Age Karita Lockwood Professor O’Quinn COM 323 October 29‚ 2012 Introduction Alcohol is a drink that is made from corn‚ barley or a beverage containing ethyl. There is currently an ongoing debate as to if the legal age limit for alcohol consumption should be lowered. Despite the dangers‚ everyday in the United States more than 13‚000 children and teens consume alcohol. The age range between eleven and eighteen is the most influential period when youths

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    aged person‚ can be deadly. Furthermore‚ for anyone to consider lowering the legal drinking age from 21‚ to 18‚ in my opinion is simply ludicrous. John Bowersox reports‚ “Since Colonial times‚ drinking alcohol has been part of American culture and its use by young people has been accepted by many as part of growing up. In fact‚ during the late 1960s and early 1970s‚ many States lowered the legal drinking age from 21 to 18. Following this change‚ the number of alcohol-related traffic fatalities

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    Note: I do not encourage underage drinking. I just picked this topic because I thought it was really interesting and would catch peoples attention. Should the drinking age be lowered down to 18? When your 18 years old you are considered an adult. You can be drafted‚ drive‚ and vote. You also have many of responsibilities. If eighteen year olds are responsible and mature then why can’t they buy alcohol? People say eighteen year olds can’t handle alcohol‚ because they make to many mistakes

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    abysmal failure. 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‚"(Debate) said John McCardell of “Choose Responsibility”. Choose Responsibility is a non-profit organization that is for lowering the drinking age to 18. Young adults can vote‚ fight and die for their country overseas‚ and purchase tobacco at age 18‚ but why cannot they have a beer? Drinking among the youth in the United States has escalated

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    Consider The universal question; should the age for drinking be lowered? In my personal opinion‚ I believe that the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen from twenty one for various reasons. The legal drinking age is currently twenty-one‚ but the illegal drinking age is everything under. Why is the main question asked. Some people believe that twenty one is too high to be the minimum age to be able to legally drink and others feel that it is the perfect age. This topic is very huge and has been debated

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    The legal drinking age is the age at which a person can consume or purchase alcoholic beverages. In 1934‚ the “Original ABC Act stated that the legal age for purchase‚ possession or consumption of any alcoholic beverage was 21 years of age” (History). The United States has the highest minimum age for alcohol consumption or purchase. Each state is responsible for setting their own minimum drinking age based on federalism. In 1984‚ the national minimum drinking age act was passed and it pushed states

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    Lower the Drinking Age? Kyle Altic November 4th‚ 2013 Abstract There was a big debate on whether or not the minimum drinking age should be lowered. The media gave this debate a lot of attention. It’s not about the age it’s about the decisions they make with alcohol at a very young adult age. I do like the argument if you are old enough to serve our country and die for your country then you should be able to drink at that age. After all the research I have done and retrieved

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    Legal Drinking Age One of the biggest arguments that you will find going on today is‚ what the legal drinking age in The United States of America should be. Today in the USA the legal drinking age is twenty-one‚ but why twenty-one why not eighteen or thirty? Why have a drinking age of twenty-one in this country when there are over two hundred other countries that have lower drinking ages‚ and none that have higher? Who gets to decide the age at which someone is mature enough to consume alcohol

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    The legal drinking age has been a controversial topic for the past few decades. Many may argue that the drinking age should be lowered to 18 since you are already treated and considered like an adult by that age. Others may argue to raise the drinking age to 25 to prevent more accidents that are harming innocent citizens. Thinking that the older you get the more mature you are. And others just say to keep the legal drinking age at 21 since this system has been working fine for the time being. What

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    Why the legal drinking age should be lowered to 18 Eighteen is the age that everyone becomes an adult in the United States. Eighteen is also the age when you should be able to decide if you choose to consume alcohol. Turning eighteen is a big responsibility at the age of eighteen you are allowed to choose to smoke cigarettes‚ vote‚ get married‚ serve on juries‚ sign contracts‚ and join the military which includes risking one’s life. So if you’re allowed to choose all of these then I feel like

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