... The town consists of about 2,000 people, and everyone knows everyone. You could pretty much say everyone from about age sixteen and up drank. In high school I was always the sober driver, and drove to some pretty weird places. I used to call these places BFE, you can use your imagination on ... into trees and get out laughing, and drink more afterwards. The issue at hand is that everyone is going to drink regardless. Middle school kids drink, high school kids drink and college kids drink. Some states carry heavy penalties for drinking under the age, but does it stop them? Some states, ....

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... into account that alcohol and teens are very well acquainted. The book, Teenagers and Alcohol: When Saying No Isn't Enough, asserts that high school surveys in the last decade show that ninety-two percent of its students have tried alcohol (Vogler & Bartz 4). Former Senator Baker says, ... aged, infirm, and builds hospitals and schools (Qtd. in Vogler & Bartz 3-4).? Although the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was enacted to prevent drunken driving accidents among inexperienced adults, it has pushed underage drinking into unsafe environments. In a recent Internet search, I found that t...

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... large responsibility for an eighteen-year-old to handle. In 1980 the government raised the drinking age to twenty-one, because the number of drunk driving accidents was causing many teen-age deaths. The young adults of America considered this law a second prohibition. The main objective of the law was to ... that the age should not be changed back to eighteen is that many eighteen-year-olds are still in high school and can distribute alcohol to even younger peers. More than one-third of high school seniors" drink to get drunk and if the age is lowered then that number in accidents would ...

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... a responsibility for an eighteen-year-old to handle. In 1980 the government raised the drinking age to twenty-one because the number of drunk driving accidents was causing many teen-age deaths. The young adults of America considered this law a second prohibition. The main objective of the law was ... This type of record can cause a problem in the future when looking for a job, applying for a professional license, or seeking admission to graduate school. These are some heavy prices to pay for young people whose only crime was to engage in the traditional campus rituals of beer drinking and...

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... 21 to purchase and consume alcohol. What is significant about the age 21? At this age, immaturity is gone, left behind in the days of high school. Most people are in college, possibly in their third year, or working for a living. Many of these college students under the age of 21 ... is indeed a major responsibility, one that can be handled directly out of high school. A better and more consistent age to consume alcohol is 18. Laws against abusive drinking are very strict the way they are, especially against drinking and driving. Everyone knows about this law, and many people hand over t...

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... by law as equals shouldn't they have the same privileges? Obviously certain laws that regulate activities by age are necessary. Voting, alcohol, and driving should not be available to people of any age because of the amount of responsibility these activities require. However the segregation between younger and older ... adults is unwarranted. Up until 1984 the legal drinking age was 18, however Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) spurred a campaign to raise the age limit to 21. They succeeded with the passage of the National Minimum Purchase Age Act in 1984 ... . (Shamed, Legal Drinkin...

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... underage drinking and underage drinking laws. One such example that has had a profound effect on societies views is the organization known as MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving). But yet despite all of these methods and laws implemented to discourage adolescent drinking, the ease of getting alcohol to minors is ever increasing. In order to ... schoolers had this to say: some say that they drink to gain acceptance from their peers. Young people tend to imitate the behavior of their peers. High school students look up to college students and see that they go out and party every weekend, s...

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It's no secret that people drink alcohol before their twenty- first birthday. Binge drinking on college campuses and at high school parties. Strong arguments have been presented on either side of the issue on drinking age. From those that support lowering the ... National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 raised the drinking age to 21, kids have starting drinking at a later age, and accidents involving drinking and driving have decreased. The first pro considered is that the laws in place to prevent underage drinking have not worked; meaning it is time to try ... risk because of a 25-year min...

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... look at. For one, at eighteen-years old, teens have a hard enough time handling the pressures and stress of post-high school life. And now that they can drink, who knows how out of control they can get. The biggest problem would be drinking and driving. Teens enjoy driving with friends, especially on a party night. Accidents would increase, and deaths caused by drunk ... driving would climb at alarming rates. Health factors are the biggest aspect in teenage drinking. Alcohol is a substance, which if drunk in excess ... ...

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... to others while under the influence, but that can happen to anyone, whether you are 21 or younger. America already has laws against drunk driving and drunken violence. However, we should not have laws outlawing drinking because it alone is an activity that absolutely does no physical harm to ... should be lowered to 18 and young adults should be allowed to drink in controlled environments such as restaurants, taverns, pubs, bars and official school and university functions. As a nation we have tried prohibition legislation twice in the past for controlling irresponsible drinking problems...

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... a car they should be able to consume alcohol. I guess they just aren't looking at the big picture and seeing how much the 21-year-old drinking age has helped. High school seniors who could not legally drink until age 21 drank less before age 21 and between ages 21 - 25 than did seniors in states with lower drinking ages. Similarly, a national ... of drivers 16-20 years who were involved in fatal crashes, and were intoxicated, dropped 47 percent from 23 percent in 1985 to 12.7 percent in 1995." (Teens and Drunk Driving) Each day 11 teenagers are killed because of alcohol-influenced car a...

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... away from home is often their first. They will have to deal with many new and challenging situations both academically and socially. For many, high school was a time of stress and worrying about getting into a good college. But once accepted and enrolled, students tend to take advantage of the ... defined as any 12-ounce beer or wine cooler, one shot of alcohol (straight or mixed), or one glass of wine. Students who drank regularly in high school tend to engage in binge drinking during college. Also, "being white, involved in athletics, or a resident of a fraternity or sorority made it m...

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... away from home is often their first. They will have to deal with many new and challenging situations both academically and socially. For many, high school was a time of stress and worrying about getting into a good college. But once accepted and enrolled, students tend to take advantage of the ... defined as any 12-ounce beer or wine cooler, one shot of alcohol (straight or mixed), or one glass of wine. Students who drank regularly in high school tend to engage in binge drinking during college. Also, "being white, involved in athletics, or a resident of a fraternity or sorority made it m...

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... under age." The system does not allow youngsters to find a way to handle alcohol responsibly. In some cities if an adult supervises a party where alcohol is present to prevent drunk driving they can be convicted for allowing other people's children to drink in their home. What sense does this make? When the parent is watching, teenagers are less apt to get ... still receive liquor regardless of how old you must be to purchase it. 1983, one year before the National Minimum Purchase Age Act was passed 88% of seniors in high school admitted to having used alcohol in the past year, and 41% ...

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... and penalties, or should the drinking age remain at 21 years old, since people are more mature and therefore, can be safe and responsible with alcohol? "A survey by the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study indicates that 52.3% of those college students, who chose to drink, drink to get drunk. 41.5% of college students who drink alcohol reported usually ... binging when they drank" ( James Hall of the H.S.P.C). It is surprising how many high school students and college students are unsure about the legal drinking age. Many others think that the legal drinking age varies ...

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... his or herself, but for others. A sixteen year old must sit through training classes, take a written test, and take a driving test. Afterwards, he or she is assumed to be a responsible driver. If the drinking age was lowered, maybe a senior in high school should be permitted to take a course that offers an outline of how to be responsible when choosing to use alcohol ... . They feel that the law keeps eighteen to twenty year olds away from alcohol. Which statistically, is false. As revealed by Maryland Underage Drinking Prevention Coalition "87 percent of high school seniors have used al...

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... under age The system does not allow youngsters to find a way to handle alcohol responsibly. In some cities if an adult supervises a party where alcohol is present to prevent drunk driving they can be convicted for allowing other people's children to drink in their home. What sense does this make? When the parent is watching, teenagers are less apt to get ... still receive liquor regardless of how old you must be to purchase it. 1983, one year before the National Minimum Purchase Age Act was passed 88% of seniors in high school admitted to having used alcohol in the past year, and 41% ad...

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... make it legal. Making alcohol legal would open up a large window to back up the Drink Responsibly Code by not forcing teenagers to drink and attempt to hide it by driving themselves. If the drinking age were lowered to 18 then there is no doubt that the alcohol industry would boom for a couple of years but after the new honeymoon period ... . Today we live in a society that demands responsibility and perfection. We live in a society that immediately forces teenagers out of their homes and into either college or work. After high school all a student has to look forward to is a lifetime of...

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... 18 year old. The legal drinking age should be lowered to 18 and young adults should be allowed to drink in controlled environments such as restaurants, taverns, pubs and official school and university functions. In these situations responsible drinking could be taught through role modeling and educational programs. They figure that a twenty-one year old person was more mature than the ... , the highest rates of alcohol intoxication occur in the age group of 25-34, followed by 21-24 and then 35-44. Our lawmakers should introduce legislation for stricter drunk driving laws and our educator...

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