Problems Of Drinking And Driving Essay

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    The Drinking Age Should be Lowered Lowering the drinking age has been a huge controversy in the United States. Should we lower it to eighteen like other countries or just keep it at twenty-one? Many people believe that the drinking age was lowered because of health reasons, but it had nothing to do with health-related problems. President Ronald Reagan gave highway funds to whoever would sign the National Minimum Drinking Age Act (Miron). Alcohol is used for many reasons. It is used for peer pressure

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    Throughout the United States drunk driving has always been a big problem, but big steps have been made to try and decrease the number of drunk driving fatalities, especially in Wisconsin. Today, these big efforts to prevent drunk driving fatalities are showing. According to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, between 2006 and 2016, drunk driving fatalities have decreased by nearly 55% percent. This is a very encouraging trend, but we still see too many driving fatalities. Within the last ten

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    The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of alcohol is health problems and addiction. The more à person drinks the more they are going to want more alcohol, this is when people start becoming addicted to drinking alcohol regularly. Alcohol addiction is à serious mental health problem , there are also other health problems that are linked to alcohol use. The consequences of drinking alcohol are bad and can lead to many negative things that not only affect your life but everyone else around

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    Distractions Driving is a limited freedom that should always be done in a safe manner in order for everyone to be safe. Problems with young drivers can cause many people to lose their safety, which can ultimately lead those young drivers to lose their license. Driving while distracted is definitely one of the leading causes for problems, such as crashes, for the young people who are just beginning to drive. There is an uncountable amount of distractions that cause problems for young drivers. In

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    get a bad rep when it comes to drinking alcohol. Especially college students that are considered “binge drinkers”. When in reality a nation wide survey of students at 168 colleges and university’s found some interesting things about the underage corrupt youth. 93% of all students have never received a lower grade in a class because of drinking too much. 98% of all college students say that they have never gotten into trouble from an administrator from excessive drinking. While the media continually

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    Drinking And Driving

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    Drinking and driving is not always a right thing. When people drink and drive the action of it could get extremely dangerous. Wrecks are one of the main problems that can happen when some people are drunk because some can lose control of what they are trying to do and end up wrecking. Another problem is driving under the influence of being on drugs. This can cause serious damage. When people are on drugs, they lose train of thought and half of the time, they forget what they are doing. It does not

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    “The deadliest drunk-driving accident in the U.S. occurred in 1988 on Interstate 71 in Kentucky when a drunk driver with a BAC level of .24 g/dL caused a head-on collision with a school bus. The crash and ensuing fire killed 27 people (most of them children) and injured 34 others” (Van Tuyl). In this essay the things that will be discussed is the consequences of drunk driving, accidents caused by drunk driving, casualties caused by drunk driving, and how community service should be the consequence

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    Legal Drinking Age

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    today, the legal drinking age has always been set at twenty-one. In the 1980’s, it rose from eighteen to twenty-one in an attempt to reduce the amount of underage drunk driving accidents. While the number of traffic fatalities have declined over the past few decades, many would argue that the law has spawned many new problems as well, such as an increase in alcohol poisoning deaths and binge drinking. As previously stated, the primary reason for adjustment to the legal drinking age was to address

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    United States, it is still regulated. In 1984, the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was passed, in which forced all states to raise their minimum drinking age to 21 years of age. In addition to this, many other federal, states, and local laws, regulate alcohol in the United States. This would include the regulation on the manufacturing of alcohol, the sale of alcohol, who gets to drink alcohol, and the response to alcohol related problems. It should be noted, Congress controls the importation and taxing

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    Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol Essay

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    Driving under the influence of alcohol has been a major issue in America, spanning all the way back to more than 50 years ago (Raymond). Many accidents are caused from drinking and driving yearly, resulting in thousands of deaths and injuries involving innocent people. When alcohol is mixed with driving a motor vehicle, there are no limits to who may be at risk. This means that drunk driving has been harming, hurting and killing many innocent people in America. Over the years I have witnessed many

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