Drinking Age Drinking age, for years there has been a big debate in our country on whether or not it should be lowered. I'm here to tell you that the drinking age should be lowered. With the drinking age being lowered it can prevent many off-highway deaths.When a teenager turns 18 they can do many adult things like joining the military for instance which is life-threatening but can drink alcohol legally.The drinking age being lowered will promote more safe drinking habits. The minimum legal drinking
Should American citizens have to wait until the age of 21 to consume alcoholic? It would be more sensible to lower the drinking age to 18 years of age. People shouldn’t have to wait until the age of 21 to consume alcoholic beverages. It’s illegal to drink under the age of 21, eventho Americans get most of the other freedoms at the age 18. There are many logical reasons why the drinking age should be lowered to 18 in the united states. It would definitely solve many problems in today's society and
Should the drinking age be lowered to 18? Many people have debated on this issue before, but I wish to just share some basic facts and statistics with you. II. Many of us know people who have participated in underage drinking and some of us may have even participated ourselves and so you may know what it’s like to drink in unsafe environments. III. For this speech, I have done extensive research on the pros and cons of lowering the drinking age to eighteen. IV. Lowering the drinking age to eighteen
In the United States, the age eighteen is considered to be the legal age for one to be considered as an adult. Moreover, it is the beginning of the adulthood which gives an adult countless of responsibilities and activities of things that they can do. At the age of eighteen, an adult has the rights and responsibilities of the following: voting, marriage, signing contracts, joining the military, and paying bills, just to name a few. Furthermore, an eighteen-year-old adult is given much greater responsibilities
I think that the drinking age should stay at 21 because brains are not fully developed till then. Others think that it is ok if it's lowered because we can go to war at the age of 18, but sadly I disagree. Its could damage the brain when you drink. your brain is not mature enough to make the right decisions. You can damage your lungs if if do the hard liquor. Now I will go over the three reasons why I think they should keep the drinking age at 21. Your brain won't be fully developed until about
were drunk before the age of 18? If any, what benefits has that given you? Was it worth it? Just think about that for a second. Personally I believe that the government SHOULD bring the minimal legal drinking age UP to 21 and I’m not the only one. There is growing support, with many advocates behind the push for a higher Drinking age and a great amount of research has been done on this topic. I’ve got three ways in which I’m going to convince you that a higher minimal drinking age is the right choice
stance is that the drinking age should not be lowered to eighteen. The points that are going to help me prove to you exactly why the drinking age be shouldn’t lowered are the increased numbers in underage traffic accidents, the increased amount of teen pregnancy, and finally other countries who let kids under eighteen drink and the problems they face. First, the issue of underage traffic accidents due to intoxicated underage drivers. Statistics show that the age limit for drinking being twenty one
Drinking Age For years the topic of the drinking age in the U.S has been questioned. Some think it should be lowered and some think it should stay at age 21. The drinking age should stay at age 21. Lowering it would cause more traffic accidents and fatalities, lowering it would give high schoolers and middle schoolers easier access to alcohol, and people are more mature and responsible at age 21 than they are at any lower age. Lowering the drinking age would cause more traffic accidents and fatalities
knowledgeable, strict supervision. No one is trained in alcohol drinking, and very rarely do people use consume alcohol under strict supervision. The drinking age must remain at twenty-one years of age because of the effects of alcohol on decision making, the rise in deaths associated with legal alcohol consumption, and the detrimental effects of alcohol on the developing adolescent brain. Alcohol consumption in a person of any age affects their decision making
3.0 Drinking Behaviour in Malaysia Over the last decade, alcoholism is a dangerous pattern of alcohol consumption among young adults and a public health concern in the United States (US) (Naimi, Brewer, Mokdad, Denny, Serdula, and Marks, 2003) as alcohol can get easily from everywhere. In US, binge drinking usually peaked around 20–22year (Kuntsche, Rehm & Gmel, 2004). One of the predictor of alcoholism was the level of financial resources. In US, there is a research which include 700000 of respondents