1. If the drinking age was lowered to 18‚ it would cost more lives. I must say I do agree with this claim that if the drinking age was lowered to 18‚ it would cost more lives. I agree because when you hear on the news or look in the news paper about car crashes they most likely involve under age drinkers. From a personal experience I do believe that the law should remain at 21. I can remember when I was like sixteen and seventeen I could go into the liquor store and buy liquor with out even
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United States. Around the world there are many different age requirements in order to drink or buy alcohol. The majority of countries around the world have a set age minimum of eighteen years of age. So why is our drinking age 21? • Why is this important to us? We are all college students and everybody knows that there is underage drinking one way or another. • Professor Ruth C. Engs from Indiana University states “The legal drinking age should be lowered to about 18 or 19 and young adults
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voting age should be lowered in the U.S. In the last few years the teenagers of our generation and the poor options we have for political candidates have proven that the voting age should be lowered to 16. There is a number of reasons that lowering the voting age will benefit the country. Lowering the voting age will increase voter turnouts‚ give the younger generation‚ a say in the law‚ and help teens become more interested in politics. This is why we should lower the voting age. Lowering the voting
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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‚ the MLDA 21 is highly ineffective‚ and lowering the age would
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The possible compromise for the Drinking Age Many debate whether the drinking age is at a reasonable age. It has been a controversial topic that has influenced many people and has been disputed upon numerous times. The drinking age should be lowered to age 19‚ for many reasons. The majority of teenagers that want to drink‚ are already drinking before the age of 21. At age 19 students are out of High School‚ and getting ready to live on their own. They also have the responsibility of making choices
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and makeup. I feel the voting age should not be lowered. Lowering the age would actually decrease voting percantages. Teenagers aren’t concerned with politics. There are many otherways to improve voter turnout besides having teens vote. In 1948‚ 51% of elgible voters participated in the presidential elections. By the time the united states held the 2012 election‚ there had only been a 11% increase‚ making voter participation at 62%. By lowering the voting age we would end up decreasing these
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electorate. For this reason‚ the issue of whether or not the voting age should be lowered from eighteen to sixteen commands our attention. Although some have argued that lowering the voting age would have harmful consequences‚ the benefits would more than outweigh the potential drawbacks. The argument against lowering the voting age depends on two criticisms that do not stand up to close scrutiny. The first is that lowering the voting age‚ and therefore increasing the number of potential voters in the
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In today’s society people of all ages have had an opinion when it comes to the government and electing our president‚ and whether or not the voting age should change. The voting age should be lowered due to the fact that age has nothing to do with knowing what is going on‚ participation may be increased since more people are able to have a say on who is elected and it gives young adults a voice when is comes to determining who is leading the country. By the time teens enter high school they have
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do on your eighteenth birthday‚ it does not include the legal consumption of alcohol. This is because in the United States the legal drinking age is twenty-one years old. The legal drinking age is an argument that is often debated and I believe that the legal drinking age should be lowered to eighteen years of age. In the United States‚ the legal drinking age has been debated for years. According to the United States‚ when a child turns eighteen they are considered an adult in this country.
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Legal Age Drinking The minimum legal drinking age varies dramatically around the world. Most such laws apply only to drinking alcoholic beverages in public locations. The only country with a minimum legal age for consuming alcohol at home is the United Kingdom‚ which prohibits drinking below the age of six. The average (mean) minimum legal drinking age around the globe is 15.9. The majority of countries have set the drinking age at 18. In fifty countries the minimum age is lower than 18
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