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    make drinking different? Underage drinking in America is inevitable. Bill H.R 734, Eliminating the Restrictions of Legal Drinking Age, proposes to eliminate having a legal drinking age in the United States. With having no drinking age in the United States it can help teens learn responsibilities of being an adult. People all around the world drink alcohol, both legally and illegally. There are many incidents of young Americans getting caught underage drinking every day. Allowing the drinking age to

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    In the united states underage drinking is becoming an issue by teens dieing with alcohol being related. As a teenager, you are either curious to drink alcohol and see what happens when you drink. Also teens may be pressured by others to drink alcohol and mo]st of them drink it to fit in the crowd. Teenagers drink even though they know the effects can be very harmful. Underage drinking can result in domestic violence and many others. When teenagers drink most of them don't know how much their body

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    can't be helped so they have taken it up to themselves to take advantage of their exposure to marketing. Underage drinking is a common practice and not something unusual in teen culture but one magazine brought up how teens are targeted by alcohol companies for profit. Alcohol companies have noted that they spend millions of dollars on public service announcements to stop kids from drinking so the notion that their marketing is designed for youths seems counterintuitive (Ricco). The reality is that

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    Underage drinking Underage drinking is a serious public health problem with dangerous consequences. Although it’s illegal, kids aged 12 to 20 drink 11% of all the alcohol consumed in the U.S. More than 90% of this alcohol is consumed in the form of binge drinking. Another risk factor is mixing alcohol with super-caffeinated energy drinks. According to surveys, 10 million young kids under the age of 21 drank alcohol in the past month. Every year, there are more than 200,000 emergency room visits

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    One always hear drama on the news and read in papers or on social media about underage drinking. Some kids care but not as much as one should because one still drinks. Is it all fun and games or is it life or death, most kids don’t think about that. Takemini's was a 14 year old girl who died because of soda mixed with vodka. But “ Takemini’s thought they had eaten something bad and were sick from the food,” said Lt. Dennis O’Leary of the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department. But it wasn’t that one

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    Underage drinking is one of the biggest problems teens are facing.Alcohol is the most commonly used and abused beverage among youth in the United States (centers for disease control and prevention).Alcohol is being consumed by minors each day in the united states. Excessive drinking is responsible for more than 4,300 deaths among underage youth each year, and cost the U.S. $24 billion in economic costs each year (centers for disease control and prevention). Underage drinking kills thousands of teens

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    Underage Drinking My topic is underage drinking I feel as though many teenagers engage in drinking, even if it is going to a party and drinking. In my hometown, where I grew up recently because nearly about every year a senior class loses a classmate due to drinking and driving or alcohol poison. I remember when I was a senior, we had lost a classmate sue to going out partying and drinking and getting behind the wheel. The teenager then was only 16 going on 17, so under the age for drinking. Underage

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    Underage drinking in the US is one of the social issues, which has been responsible for numerous economic losses, accidents, deaths and crimes. Youth have become actively involved in drinking abuse, where they lose their sense of understanding and comprehension. To eradicate the social issue of underage drinking, numerous strategies have been implemented by the US government, where some of them were successful, while others were not able to produce significant reduction in underage drinking. Today

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    Underage drinking is becoming a serious social issue in modern Australia; with 90% of Australian teenagers over 14 that have tried alcohol at least once. Estimates also suggest that half of Australia’s teenagers drink alcohol on a weekly basis. Underage drinking can cause drink driving and unsafe sex if it is misused. Australia seems to be fond of this drug, and find it to be socially acceptable although it is causing the amount of teenage deaths to rise rapidly due to misuse. Heavy use of Alcohol

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    Causes of Underage Drinking Today, many teenagers experience different things in the world. Whether it is their first date or first day in high school, teens are always eager to try something different or new. One of the things that teenagers try is drinking alcohol. Unfortunately, underage drinkers often abuse alcohol. In this paper, I will try to shed some light on some of the reasons why teenagers drink alcohol at such premature age. The causes of underage drinking include peer pressure

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