About 1,900 people under 21 die every year from car crashes involving underage drinking. i) Young people are more susceptible to alcohol-induced impairment of their driving skills. ii) Drinking drivers aged 16 to 20 are twice as likely to be involved in a fatal crash as drinking drivers who are 21 or older. iii) For every 100,000 Americans under the age of 21, 1.4 people were killed in drunk driving fatalities in 2010 iv) The rate of fewer than 21 drunk driving fatalities per 100,000 populations has declined 48% over the past decade. v) In 2009, 11 percent of all drivers involved in fatal crashes were young drivers 15- to 20- years old.
A Social Problem In America alone people take about two hundred and thirty three trips in cars each year, of all these, one out of two thousand of these trips are being taken by drunk or drugged individuals. Statistics show that one of three traffic tragedies involve drunk drivers. Approximately nine thousand eight hundred seventy eight people died in car crashes in the year 2011. Due to these high numbers it was determined that this was a social problem in which the whole nation should pay close attention
90% of underage drinking is binge drinking. In other countries, with the drinking age at 18, binge drinking starts at age 13. Statistics show that heavy drinking could start at as young as 13 years old. In 2003, a study showed that kids started to drink at age 14, while in 1965 kids would start to drink at age 17, that’s a big age difference. Due to binge drinking, there are an estimated 300 suicides per year in the U.S.
Those under the age of 21 are more likely to be heavy -- sometimes called "binge" -- drinkers (consuming over 5 drinks at least once a week). For example, 22% of all students under 21 compared to 18% over 21 years of age are heavy drinkers. Among drinkers only, 32% of under age compared to 24% of legal age are heavy drinkers. Research from the early 1980s until the present has shown a continuous decrease in drinking and driving related variables which has parallel the nation's, and also university students, decrease in per capita consumption. However, these declines started in 1980 before the national 1987 law which mandated states to have 21 year old alcohol purchase laws.
Issues proceed among contemporary Native Americans with 12% of the deaths among American Indians and Alaska Natives are liquor related. Utilization of liquor fluctuates by age, sexual orientation and tribe with ladies and particularly more old ladies, being to the least extent liable to be general consumers. Indians, especially ladies, are more inclined to leave totally liquor than the general US populace. Recurrence of utilization among American Indians is for the most part short of what the overall public, however the amount devoured when it is expended is by and large more noteworthy. A review of death endorsements over a four-year period demonstrated that deaths among Indians because of liquor are about four times as basic as in the general US populace and are regularly because of movement accidents and liver sickness with murder, suicide, and falls likewise helping.
security and severely drop the demand for fake IDs. Rising the drinking age hasn’t prevent underage drinking; it has caused 18-20 year olds to over drink and become addicted to alcohol. The drinking age should be lowered to 18 because when you turn 18 you earm so many rights, why not be able to drink and celebrate a little. Drunk driving is most common between the ages of 21-24 instead of 18-20 years old. When you are first allowed to drink is when people get inane and don’t know how to handle alcohol and driving.
Getting a hold of alcohol isn’t really that difficult. People, who will drive drunk, will drive drunk. If someone is willing to break the law, then they might be willing to break it by driving drunk. There are some people that believe lowering the drinking age for people under 21 serving in the armed forces would have horrible effects on their future. Those who serve tend to have to deal with a much higher job stress level than your ever day person on the home front.
An estimated 5.4 million Americans of all ages have Alzheimer’s disease in 2012. This figure includes 5.2 million people age 65 or older and 200,000 individuals under age 65 who have younger onset Alzheimer’s. One in eight people age 65 and older has Alzheimer’s disease and nearly half of people age 85 and older have Alzheimer’s disease. More women than men have Alzheimer’s disease. Almost two third of Americans with Alzheimer’s are women which is explained by the fact that women live longer on average than men.
Some statistics show more than 87,000 Americans aged 65 and older - mainly men - are being hospitalized each year for alcoholism, a rate similar to that for heart attacks, say Milwaukee researchers. In a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, they say drinking problems evidently do not decline with age. Hospital admissions related to alcohol were 54.7 per 10,000 for retired men and 14.8 per 10,000 for women. (1) The problems surrounded around alcoholism in the elderly are as many as 3 million Americans over age 60 are alcoholics or have a drinking problem, according to the AMA, Chicago. Alcohol abuse is frequently overlooked in the elderly because they often are cut off from the outside world.
First he talks about the drinking rates in Europe and the United States and then says, “British 15 and 16-year olds were more than twice as likely as Americans to binge drink (50 percent vs. 24 percent) and to have been intoxicated within the past 30 days (48 percent vs. 21 percent).” Another statistic he uses is, “...The World Health Organization found that American 15-year olds were less likely than those in 18 other nations to have been intoxicated twice or more. British girls and boys were far likelier that their U.S. counterparts to have been drunk that often (52 and 51 percent vs. 28 and 34 percent).” This information makes for a pretty convincing argument and appeals to our ethos. Califano then appeals to our pathos as he goes on to talk about the consequences of teen drinking. One fact he presents is, “…The American Medical Association found that teen drinking-not bingeing, just drinking-can seriously damage growth processes of the brain and that such damage ‘can be long term and irreversible.’” He then goes on to say, “Alcohol is a major contributing factor in the three leading causes of teen death-accidents, homicide, and suicide- and increases the chances of juvenile delinquency and crime.” Using such concrete facts to support his statement is a very effective way to persuade and connect with the audience. This could even persuade a teen that may believe the drinking age should be lowered as well.