... Why follow laws that ban something which will be ignored by many of our peers? The authority may say that the higher drinking age will discourage teenagers and young adults from consuming alcohol. They say the laws that insist on merchants to turn people down less than twenty-one years of ... the age of twenty-one are nearly impossible to enforce. Even if authorities force them, the people who decide to break these laws are rarely punished severely. For example, in a few states there have been raids of businesses that had liquor licenses and were able to vend alcoholic beverages to minor...

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... too high in this country. Why enact laws to prohibit an act that will be ignored by many of our peers? The opposition may say that the higher drinking age discourage teenagers and young adults from consuming alcohol. They say the laws that force merchants to refuse to sell alcohol to persons under 21 years of age will help stem the ... prohibit merchants from selling alcohol to persons under 21 are hard to enforce. Even if they are enforced by the authorities, the establishment that breaks that law is rarely punished severely. For example, in Belmont County in Ohio, the police conducted...

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