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We must take 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, in Teenagers and Alcohol: When.
Saying No Isn't Enough, that.
alcohol is thebloody monster that defiles innocence; creates misery, poverty, fear; causes.
helplessness and hopelessness, then.
certainly, I am against it (Qtd. in Vogler & Bartz 3).? Of course, alcohol does have its.
downfalls like anything else; but then.
again it also has its benefits. Senator Baker went on to say,Alcohol is the oil of.
conversation that puts a song in the hearts and.
laughter on people's lips, magnifies joy and happiness. Alcohol reduces the risk of heart.
disease. It also floods the Treasury of.
untold millions of dollars used to help the crippled, blind, deaf, 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 theMedical.
Examiner? from the University of North Carolina gave statistics on how the law did in fact.
decrease the number of.
alcohol-related crashes for 19 and 20 year olds. The irrelevant or flawed part of the.
statistics is that there was also a dramatic.
decline in such crashes among all age groups in general across the United States (1).
Avoiding such tragedies is of great.
importance, after all the law was passed after the high rate of deaths due to teen drunken.
driving in the 1970's. Instead of.
denying alcohol to adults until they are 21, perhaps the government should have raised the.
driving age to 18, and more rigorous.
drivers? training requirements should have been established. A recent poll taken by the.