Imagine being in a bar with a few of your good friends. Everyone is drinking and having a good time. Your are going to leave and go home‚ but you friends won’t let you because they know the dangers of driving after having a few drinks. Instead they ca ll a cab to give you a ride home. You would be extremely lucky to have such smart friends. Drunk driving is a very serious problem in our society today‚ but it is becomming socially unacceptable causing the numbers of alcohol related traffic fatalites
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Alcohol 2. Why don’t younger people generally see anything dangerous about consuming alcohol? WE see our parents drinking‚ we see it accepted. Don’t considerate a drug. It is glamourized by society. 3. What is binge drinking? Drinking a large amount of alcohol in a short period of time‚ or a couple of days. 4. What other countries face problems associated with binge drinking? UK‚ and USA We have similar culture to the USA and UK‚ similar lifestyle 5. What are some of the reasons
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Drinking water or potable water is water safe enough to be consumed by humans or used with low risk of immediate or long term harm. In most developed countries‚ the water supplied to households‚ commerce and industry meets drinking water standards‚ even though only a very small proportion is actually consumed or used in food preparation. Typical uses (for other than potable purposes) include toilet flushing‚ washing and landscape irrigation. Chlorination is the process of adding the element chlorine to water as
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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………………… 5 UNDERAGE DRINKING…………………………………………………………………... 5 MILITARY UNDERGE DRINKING……………………………………………………..... 7 BINGE DRINKING……………………………………………………............................... 8 CONCLUSION……………………………………………………..................................... 11 RECOMMENDATIONS/SOLUTIONS……………………………………………………. 11 MILITARY WINGMAN CONCEPT……………………………………………………..... 13 ENFORCING THE LAW……………………………………………………...................... 15 WORKS CITED……………………………………………………
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Lowering the Drinking Age Adulthood and responsibility begins at the age of eighteen‚ not twenty-one. In 1984‚ a law was passed prohibiting the consumption of alcohol to those individuals under the age of twenty-one. The argument and support behind this law was based solely on safety issues; however‚ education and a higher awareness would virtually solve this supposed "problem." At the age of eighteen‚ a young man or woman gains all rights as an adult‚ yet he or she still can still not consume
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Essay The legal drinking age has been a continuously debated subject in the United States since its establishment. The national legal drinking age of twenty-one years old was placed in 1984 and still holds to the present‚ but many have begun questioning whether twenty-one is still an appropriate age for our current society. Much of this debate starts with college campuses and binge drinking. As a senior in high school‚ and soon-to-be freshman in college‚ I began wondering if the drinking age is still
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is involved in a drinking and driving incident. Many people drink and drive without thinking about the consequences. The majority of fatal car crashes are caused be alcohol related incidents. 2. My name is Jacquelyn Wells. I never thought I’d be involved with a drinking and driving incident. But just like I thought it wouldn’t happen to me‚ it could happen to anybody. I have researched this problem and identified solutions to make this better. 3. If you are drinking and driving‚ then
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Responsibility Lowering the drinking age to eighteen‚ mistake or a way to stop larger problems? I have found a website that‚ if you are for lowering the drinking‚ will clear a lot of these kinds of questions up. Choose Responsibility is a non-profit organization founded by President Emeritus John M. McCardell Jr. of Middlebury College‚ when McCardell was approached by the Robertson Foundation‚ a foundation interested in investigating the consequences of the 21 year-old drinking age. The Effects of the
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Underage drinking is a serious widespread health problem in the United States and is a widely used substance of abuse. Underage drinking is also associated with binge drinking. This poses enormous health and safety risks and the consequences can affect everyone and this mostly affects people from 12-20. Binge drinking is very risky and can lead to further drug abuses and addiction‚ brain damage‚ irrational and ignorant‚ and more importantly‚ your health. This is why young teens should not drink
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of Underage Drinking Today‚ many teenagers experience different things in the world. Whether it is their first date or first day in high school‚ teens are always eager to try something different or new. One of the things that teenagers try is drinking alcohol. Unfortunately‚ underage drinkers often abuse alcohol. In this paper‚ I will try to shed some light on some of the reasons why teenagers drink alcohol at such premature age. The causes of underage drinking include peer
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