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    Drinking alcohol is harmful to health. These days, teenagers are more addicted to drinking alcohol. They are not thinking about them and they are drinking alcohol. Drinking wine is good to health. Doctors also suggest people drinking a glass of wine a day. The government having certain norms like there is a legal age for drinking. Legal age for drinking is 25. These days some students are drinking the alcohol and they are more addicting to the alcohol. The legal age of 25 is sufficient for the government

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    The legal drinking age in the U.S. has been a topic of discussion for years. Many people think the legal drinking age should be 18 and not 21. People often argue that you can die for our country in the military at the age of 18, but can't legally drink a beer? It doesn't make any sense at all. You can vote and help decide the next leader of our country, but can't legally purchase a mixed drink with your friends? I'm 19 years old and I can't enjoy the luxury of buying a drink of alcohol

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    The Debate on the Minimum Legal Drinking Age There has been a debate going on about the minimum legal drinking age, or “MLDA”. Some people believe it has no impact on our youth, and should thus be lowered to the standard age of adulthood, age 18. They refuse to acknowledge the true significance of this law, however, and continue to see it as a futile attempt to control the inevitable. Yet in reality, having an MLDA of 21 has many benefits, and stands for a healthier view of alcohol consumption,

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    Here in the United States, there is a law that prohibits youth 21 years of age and younger not to drink any alcohol beverages. However, in this country, anyone who turns 18 can sign up and be in the armed forces to protect the country. In the year 2001, war broke out between the Middle East and the United States and thousands of men and women were deployed to the Middle East to deal with the problem. While they were over there, the soldiers would witness many things that civilians could never

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    friends, and the feeling of being invincible. Although there are a legal alcohol drinking and purchasing age in various countries, it is easily accessible to those who are underage. Alcohol is a monitored and controlled substance that can be purchased legally, yet there are many concerns that surround the substance. There are pros, cons, and different patterns regarding alcohol and the legal alcohol drinking and purchasing age. As a result of alcohol use, there have been many fatalities and injuries

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    The legal drinking age has always been a debatable topic that people argue about all the time. Alcohol has been a drug problem for the majority of our young adults all around the world. The goal is to decrease the effects of underage drinking In the United States by keeping the legal drinking law 21. Every state had the right to their own legal drinking age, therefore during the 1970 & 1980’s some states had 21 while others had 18. This problem was carried over when teenagers got behind the wheel

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    The legal drinking age should be removed because it teaches safe drinking, it removes the taboo around it, and history proves it does not work at 18. Conor Lewis 12-4-15 English 3rd Alcohol. The source of curiosity among young people everywhere. People everywhere, college students, and even some high school students enjoy it. There’s no doubt this nation enjoys alcohol but what about the people who can’t taste it yet? What about those who are considered adults in every way and permitted to

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    Traditional-7 12 May 2016 The Legal Drinking Age Each year about 5,000 people under the age of twenty-one die from causes related to underage drinking. Today, about 10.8 million children and teens, ages twelve to twenty-one are underage drinkers. Teens start to drink because of the environment around them, their physical changes, emotional changes, and the increase of independence. Alcohol is now the most widely-used substance among teens. Many think that drinking is less serious than drug use,

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    Age had always and forever will be a large part of our lives. Either you are too young to do something or so old you are only now able to receive a benefit. Age minimums, maximums, requirements and restrictions are all something we are all too familiar with. One famous age restriction is the legal drinking age. This restriction had been put in place to protect young adults but I believe it had done more damage than protecting. Every teenager believes that drinking is ‘cool’. It is what the celebrities

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    The study relied on the secondary analysis of qualitative data collected from journals and previous studies on the minimum legal drinking age (NDLA). In secondary research methodology, a research uses existing data to answer research questions. The key advantage of using the secondary research methodology is that it is an inexpensive method to extract already available information. The only limitation of this method is that information collected does not exactly address the research question as researchers

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