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With evidence that a lower drinking age resulted in more traffic injuries and fatalities among youth, citizen advocacy groups pressured states to restore the MLDA to 21. Because of such advocacy campaigns, 16 states increased their MLDA between September 1976 and January 1983. Resistance from other states, and concern that minors would travel across state lines to purchase and consume alcohol, prompted the federal government in 1984 to enact the Uniform Drinking Age Act, which mandated reduced federal transportation funds to those states that did not raise the MLDA to 21. This may be true but with this much responsibility thrown at 18 year old at one time this is all really exciting. So if the government does decide to lower the drinking age they should then lower it to 19 years old this way it gives time for the young adult to let everything soak into their head.
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A person should also know when he/she is to drunk to function, once a person knows his/her limits than they will be fine. It is your responsibility to know when you've had to much to drink that particular night. But 93% of college students who took this survey said that they have never received a lower grade because of drinking too much and that 90% have never damaged any kind of property like a fire alarm or engaged in any inappropriate behavior because of drinking too much. People who don't know their own limits are the people who cause the "young adults- problems. Young adults then get labels on them, because of the actions of other young adults. (RALLY, 2002) .
The media, government, private alcohol agencies, therapists, and alcohol educators like to put a spin on the truth. For example this was in the Wall Street Journal .
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Instead, the study could have resulted in this headline and lead story:.
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(http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol-info/youth/youth.html) This is the effect of trying to keep the underage drinking as a bad thing and to have the public not like kids who drink.
