Should the legal drinking age be increased or decreased?

It's 21 here in the United States and I think it should be lowered to 18 only because if you're allowed to vote for your country's president, join the army and be considered an adult, then you should be allowed to drink.

In the UK, to buy alcohol you must be over 18, but there are strict rules where you will be asked to show ID if you look under 25. The legal drinking age is hazy, as it is meant to be okay for a minor to have a glass of wine at home with their family but not out in a pub or restaurant. It's something I might check up on actually.... I think the law is fine as it is.It shouldn't be increased because by 18 or 21, you are an adult and should be treated like one.

The curiosity of alcohol causes problems among youngsters. In other countries like Spain and Italy, families drink together socially, and the enigma is taken away. You get less yob style behavior in bars because of it.

It's all about attitude and the individual person, and how they deal with the amount they drink.

In the US, it should be lowered. The law says you're responsible enough to buy a house, get married, vote, and die for your country at 18 -- but you're not responsible enough to buy alcohol? Am I missing something here?

Drinking age be increased to 21. It is no secret, that people drink alcohol before they turn 21. Should The Legal Alcohol Drinking Age Be Lowered To 18?

Lowered to 18? Should the legal alcohol drinking age be lowered to eighteen? High percentage of alcohol related traffic fatalities.

Zealanders do not feel a lower drinking age will increase abusive drinking. A few countries do not even have a minimum drinking age. Is The Drinking Age Too High?

Has been a controversy in the United States of America ever since the legal drinking age was increased from 18 to 21. Alter the behaviour of teenagers as alcohol does. Others argue that raising the drinking age would increase underage drinking at private parties.

Be twenty one years old. There has been evidence that the drinking age of 21 has decreased the amount of tragic car accidents related to alcohol between young adults. Greater maturity, alcohol abuse is decreased.

Because many teens are prone to binge drink which leads to alcohol abuse, lowering the drinking age would increase alcohol related crashes and fatalities. Of this act also thought that there would be fewer alcohol related car accidents if the minimum drinking age was increased to age twenty one. Proposition/Resolution Satement: The federal government should lower the alcohol drinking age to 18.

2011, from http://www.alcoholnews.org/underage_drink.htmlDulaney, M.(2006, January 30). Younger Drinking Age would Increase Parential Oversight. Total (Brief History of the Drinking Age).

That lowering the drinking age would increase alcohol related driving accidents. Also the government. Addition, Mexico's drinking age is lower than Americas, which increases the rate of accidents involving alcohol.

Targeted a demographic group, by raising the drinking age to 21.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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