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    Introduction Overview University students are synonymous with drinking and testing their limits. Maybe it’s some kind of rite of passage or merely peer pressure but when you consider the average age of students these days it hard to gain some kind of perspective. According to the most recently available data, the median age of college students is 21.6 years, while for university students; the median age is 22.8 years (see Appendix A). (Dale, 2012) The question needs to be asked; why young adults

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    Whats the Appropriate Drinking Age?

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    they do is start drinking to make their stress go away. No one wakes up and decides, “I’m going to become an alcoholic today.” No one wants to be an alcoholic but bad things happen. If you are not careful with alcohol then you can easily become an alcoholic. Alcoholics around you also affect the way you look at alcohol. If you are in a group of friends and all of them are drinking you will be pressured into drinking or you might feel like you have

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    many of the medical consequences of alcohol use. For example, alcoholic women develop cirrhosis (5), alcohol–induced damage of the heart muscle (i.e., cardiomyopathy) (6), and nerve damage (i.e., peripheral neuropathy) (7) after fewer years of heavy drinking than do alcoholic men. Studies comparing men and women’s sensitivity to alcohol–induced brain damage, however, have not been as conclusive. Using imaging with computerized tomography, two studies (8,9) compared brain shrinkage, a common indicator

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    all time. If you're not a fan well you're doing life wrong. It's delicious, dates back to the olden days, and will get you feeling good much faster than that light beer you're drinking. Here are the top seven reasons why you should really be drinking more rum. Number Seven: Rum Is Classy Forget those trashy beers of college. Put down that awful light beer and pick up a tumbler glass with a hefty swig of rum in it. You just added so much class to yourself it's unreal. Number Six: Pirates Drank It

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    that has medical challenges or may develop any health concerns. Binge drinking is an arising problem in not only grown adults but teens as well, binge drinking should not occur regardless of your age because of its negative outcomes. Now the worse thing for one’s health is intake too much at one time, there are multiple physical and emotional outcomes to alcohol consumption. On a personal level I use to have a binge drinking problem and it wasn’t until I found out about some health concerns that

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    Lowering the Drinking Age Many teenage deaths in the United States are caused in some way by the influence of alcohol; however, many people still believe that the legal drinking age should be reduced to eighteen. This issue has been going on for years, but the law has not been changed since the change to twenty-one in 1980. States have become stricter about preventing under-age drinking, but teenagers have no problem getting alcohol. There are many arguments in favor of changing the drinking age back

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    Essay On Drinking Age

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    A drinking age of 18 is associated with a increase of four percent in drinking participation. A three percent increase in heavy drinking rates is seen mainly in states that raised their drinking age. The legal drinking age of 21 fails to have fatality reducing effects. Commonly attributed to it while most of the drinking age occurred in the 1980s. Traffic accidents rates have been going down since 1969, due to things as improved vehicle safety standards, medical advances, and better driver training

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    Military drinking In the military alcohol can be a way of dealing with problems. When people drink in the military it is known to be a tolerable way to deal with their problems (Clinton-Sherrod, Barrick, & Gibbs, 2011, p. 23). A lot of the groups who have been in warfare are 25 years old or younger. At that age it is more common to abuse alcohol (Clinton-Sherrod, Barrick, & Gibbs, 2011, p. 23). They may drink for reasons like having nothing to do. Depending on the traits of a person can determine

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    alcoholic beverage. During the Roaring Twenties, before the National Minimum Legal Drinking Age Act of 1984, Prohibition set in and ratified the 18th Amendment. This closed many taverns, bars, and saloons in the United States; which drove alcohol underground, this started the underground alcohol trade. Eventually, the Prohibition was repealed and drinking was legal again for those of age and stipulations. The Minimum Legal Drinking Age (MLDA) is a term widely used to describe the age at which the legal consumption

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    food or being in a social environment sharing, or also it can be part of a religion. Drinking is fun, but it should be considered to do it in moderation. Alcohol drinking age limit should be lowered to the age of 18, because having a high age limit can cause many problem thinking that they’re actually being solved. The law of 21 and over drinking is seemed as a useless law, because the average American starts drinking under the age of 21. Most teenager’s drink alcohol as an act of rebellion, because

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