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Underage Drinking In the article Why the Drinking Age should be Lowered, Ruth Engs believes that the drinking age should be lowered to about 18 or 19. Engs is a Professor at Indiana University in the Health and Sciences department. In this article Engs makes a valid point in that “responsible drinking could be taught through role modeling and educational programs.” Engs also states facts about the different drinking ages in other countries, and that the United States has the highest legal

Underage drinking is one of the most prevalent problems in the United States. This is a problem because alcohol is an item that nobody under twenty-one years of age is allowed to purchase or consume. People who are underage are punished by law when they consume or attempt to purchase alcohol illegally. This makes people under twenty-one want alcohol even more. In other countries where the legal minimum drinking age is lower, there are less problems because it gives parents the push to teach their

Teenagers dream of the day they can start driving and take a step closer to independence from their parents. We impatiently wait to make a trip to the DMV to receive our permit. It is exhilarating and just the idea of speeding down the streets make us shake with excitement. We can vividly recall those moments leading up to getting our permits, but we never think about how driving with inexperience can possibly affect others. All the families which have destroyed, futures ended early. Although the

Have you ever wondered why when you're 18 years old you're old enough to join the army and move out, but not drink or buy alcohol? People are trying to lower the drinking age to 18 because they think they're mature enough. They think if you can be in the military you should be able to drink. If you're old enough to fight in a war and live by yourself you're old enough to buy alcohol. This is taking place in the USA. This gained recognition when the law was passed to make the drinking age 21 on

Jacob was hiding in his closet drinking a bottle of Jack Daniels when he heard his mom walk into his room looking for him. He prayed that she would not open the closet door and find him in there drinking. Many teens have had this same experience, hiding from their parents, hoping that his mom will not catch him. In many cases, this leads to accidents happening, which could end up with an injury. About forty years ago the legal drinking age was eighteen in most states until it was made a law to make

In the united state, anyone after the age of eighteen is considered as an adult. They are expected to be counted as a responsible grown person, which means that one is responsible for making their own decisions, education, bills, and goals. Also, at the age of eighteen in the united state; a person can vote and enlist to fight and protect for the love of their home country, but they are not allowed to have a drink of a beer legally. In the article “The Gallup Briefing” by author Carroll agrees that

People all over the United States are getting ready to make a decision on who to vote for in the Presidential election this fall. Most people don’t even begin thinking about the voting process until they reach the age of 18, since the legal voting age as of now is 18. However, some believe that the voting age should be lowered to 16, to allow for a more broad selection of voters. While opening up the option to vote for 16 year olds would provide a much larger number of voters, others think that teenagers

The age of 21 is the appropriate age to allow the consumption of alcohol in the United States. Moreover, “the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced that in 2010, 552 lives were saved by the minimum legal drinking age” (Voas, 2013, p. 1601). But traffic safety is not the only concern, if lowering the minimum legal drinking age, health and behavior issues will also be of concern. The possible consequences of lowering the minimum legal drinking age to 18 may include an

Should alcohol drinking age be decreased of increased? In my opinion it should be decreased because if we are classified as an adult and we are allowed to get married and etc. Why are we not allowed to drink. Lowering the drinking age would teach kids how to be more responsible at a younger age. If kids are just cut off from things, they are just going to find a way around it anyway. Kids just need to learn to do things in moderation. Because unfortunate, adults aren't responsible with

Legality and Liquor: A Balancing Act Laws surrounding alcohol use and consumption in the United States all stem from one major root: the Prohibition Era of the 1920s. The Prohibition Era lasted almost thirteen years and banned the production, the distribution, and the sale of alcohol. In 1933, the Prohibition Act was repealed and states designated their own legal drinking age. In 1984 the National Minimum Drinking Age act was passed and raised the drinking age in the United States to twenty-one.