Drink at 18 not 21

... there would be actually less kids going on binge drinking sprees. First, I would like to know how can our country give 18 year olds the right to vote for our countries leader, but not drink alcohol. If you ask me I think that voting is one of the biggest responsibilities because that is a choice that can affect ... oppose this is that people are not fully mature at 18. Well if you ask me, if we are mature enough to drive, vote, and fight in wars we are more than mature to drink. I know that not every 18 year old is mature but if you think about neither is every 21 year old or even every ...

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... your own choices. With out a drinking age of 21, drinking will be something you do naturally rather then pretending you are cool because you are breaking the law. The United States Federal Government should lower the legal drinking age to 18. First thing is that in countires with a lower drinking age children learn to drink achocol in moderate. For example, in countries like ... Portugel where there is no drinking age the abuse of achocol is much lower. This is because chidlern will learn how to drink a little with meals and not abuse it. Elizabeth Whelan says, In ... , die for their co...

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... escape one's eyes. Due to the many responsibilities these students are expected to uphold as young adults they should also be able to legally drink alcohol. Some of the responsibilities and privileges young adults possess include defending the country, voting, the right to own guns, and the ability ... . Due to one's ability to fulfill such roles as an adult that individual of eighteen years of age should legally be able to drink alcohol. Currently in the United States the legal age to consume alcohol is twenty-one, however due to the responsibilities and privileges given ... Persons of...

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... 18. These people argue that if a person is able to vote, be drafted to fight in a war, and drive 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 survey of 16 - 21 year-olds found that teens from states with ... , the greater chance of developing alcohol dependence or abuse some time in their...

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... . All these lobbyists approached the mayor's office and aldermen against Burke's proposal as well as one proposed by Cardenas, to ban the sale of energy drinks to anyone under age 21.7 According to Chicago Sun-Times report, in regard to Burke's proposal, Reyes said, "Our goal is to work with the concerns the City Council has, but taxes and bans ... , but I'm glad we had hearing and started to get the issues on the table. It's totally legit concern The aldermen and the chairman did the right thing having a hearing," 18. As the mayor is getting pressure from the association of the beverage ...

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... of peer pressure, this leads to a higher percent of automobile crashes. This is because they are not doing something they wholeheartedly wanted to do, and maybe they did not focus enough on a task that requires such difficult thinking in the beginning. Despite the law stating that 21 is the legal age for drinking, many teenagers disregard it when they go to parties or ... of Responsibility, Jack McCardell believes that lowering the age limit of drinking to 18 would only lower the ages of those who would begin to drink illegally, because they do not consider themselves underage at all. T...

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The drinking age in the United States is now twenty one years of age. Some people believe that this age is too high to be the minimum age to be able to legally drink and others feel that it is the perfect age. This topic is very huge and has been debated for years. The United States drinking age has gone up and down, and recently, in 1984, it has gone up to twenty one. Many events took place before the drinking age went up. It all began when the United States slowly tried to ban alcohol in every state for every person no matter what your age was. They did succeed. This is called National Prohi...

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... , therefore they can be easily persuaded into drinking. Alcohol is seen as something not allowed and young people get a sort of thrill from breaking the law when they drink. The maturity level of 18-20 year olds proves that they are not quite ready to drink, thus the legal age should remain at 21. Most underage drinking occurs on a college campus. For a lot of first year students ... 21. In America, 18 is considered a legal adult; you can move out of your parents' house without their say, you can get married, you can vote, you can play the lottery, you can purchase cigarettes, you can ev...

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... Survey on Drug Use and Health, reports that 25% of youth aged 12 to 20 years drink alcohol and 16% binge drink (Alcohol and Public Health, 2012). Binge drinking is the consumption of an excessive amount of alcohol ... 21 is because we have one of the lowest driving ages in the world. Most European countries don't allow a person to obtain a license until their 18, in part because need doesn't necessitate it; there are many convenient public transportation options available. Since a youth can obtain a driver's license at age 16, if he/she could drink at 18 ... cut funding to highways to st...

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