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    18 vs. 21: Drinking Age

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    Why do people only want to change the drinking age from 21 to 18, when there are other activities that have limit of age such as marriage at 18, driving at 16 and 35 to be a president? Alcohol plays a major role in today society, which becomes a controversial issue among teens. Alcohol is a mind-altering chemical that is potentially more dangerous than any other drug and can be very destructive. For past few years, many people are trying to lower the drinking age without knowing the negative effects

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    Underage Drinking Speech

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    underage drinking. As a high school student, this public service announcement grabbed my attention due to the fact that I see underage drinking daily. I chose this public service announcement because I feel that underage drinking currently has one of the most negative effects on teenagers. Underage drinking can physically and mentally abuse a person. I can relate to this issue because I have interacted with underage drinking which led to trouble and danger several times. Underage drinking is considered

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    Legal Drinking Age

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    Lowering the drinking age would just increase the amount of drinking, but if we raise the legal drinking age it would reduce the amount of car crashes, abusive relationships, and illegal underage drinking. It’s medically irresponsible to do under-age drinking, it’s actually medically irresponsible to do it at all. If we would lower the legal drinking age the amount of car crashes would increase. A 1975 study showed that when 2 U.S states and a province in Canada lowered the legal-drinking age it increased

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    “The health board says some U.S. studies show that country’s legal drinking age of 21 leads to fewer crashes.” (Should we raise the drinking age to 21? (n.d.). Retrieved March 21, 2017, from https://canadasafetycouncil.org/news/should-we-raise-drinking-age-21.). Underage drinking is a serious issue in Canada and if the legal drinking age is increased from 19 to 21 there will be fewer accidents to deal with. The legal drinking age in Canada should be increased to 21 years old because teenagers will

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    The issue of underage drinking has been constant for many years. The law for the minimum drinking age allows people 21 and older to legally drink alcoholic beverages. It is hard to enforce this law especially on college campuses where lots of underage drinking takes place. Someone that is 18 and older can get into some clubs where they are getting drinks even though they are not supposed to. There is a level of responsibility they needs to be taken when people are drinking. They should know how to

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    for drinking should be raised or decreased. From a teen’s point of view, they typically think the legal age should be reduced from 21 to 18, while on the other hand, most adults think it should stay the same or even be raised higher. The age has fluctuated over the years, even before 1984 each state got to choose their own drinking age, but with that if the state didn’t comply with the legal age of 21 they had their government funding cut by approximately 10%. While the Minimum Legal Drinking Age(MLDA)

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    The Legal Age for Drinking Alcohol Should Not Be Lowered To 18 In the United States. Every state has the right to set its own legal drinking age. However, according to George Will in an article he wrote in the Washington Post about the legal drinking age, “drinking age paradox” “lowering the drinking age will cost the state ten percent of its federal highway funds and cause a significant uproar from contractors and construction unions.” It is therefore in the best interest of every citizen as well

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    life, but not all are made for drinking. Ethanol, a specific type of alcohol, is used for many household items, such as, cleaning supplies or medicines but is highly poisonous and therefore not used in many other items. More commonly, alcohol is known for being used in drinks for those over the age of twenty one. After many debates, the argument “Should the drinking age be lowered?”, is still one of the most widely controversial topics. Many think the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen

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    debating whether the Minimum Legal Drinking Age (MLDA) in some states of the United States should be lowered from 21 to 18 as it is in most countries in Europe. Although an 18-year-old is regarded as an adult in the United States and having the right to vote, buy a lottery ticket, a pack of cigarettes, get a tattoo, and join the army, they do not have the legal right to buy and consume alcohol. So, in this essay, I am going to explain why Minimum Legal Drinking Age should not be reduced to 18 because

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    someone lower the drinking age?” “ These teens are old enough to know that they perfectly conscious when they do this stuff?” A lot of people also say, “ Even if they do it, nothing will happen to them.” I will be giving my opinion on this. First of all, I am completely against lowering the drinking age. I have three main reasons why I am against lowering the age. The first one, it gives the youth time to grow and mature. Second, I have had family and friends die because of drinking at a young age.

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