This is a great opportunity to teach those who are underage so they will have an idea of knowing their limits earlier. As they grow older, they will have the ability to control the alcohol consumption. Also, colleges would be able to regulate alcohol use so that students won't become overly intoxicated. If young adults are taught how to drink, it will neglect them from being an alcoholic. The final example is that there will be fewer underage arrests.
Health issues are already a problem amongst heavy drinkers or binge drinkers, such as liver damage and kidney failure. By lowering the age limit, this allows the teens to develop these issues sooner. Especially since majority of teens who drink illegally now, drink until they are completely obliviated. This could possibly allow them to understand the concept of determining how much is too much as well as saving them from at least a few years of damage to their health. Another concern is rape and or other unintended sexual activity and how it has become a constant concern amongst teenage drinkers, by keeping the age limit at 21 this can also reduce the likeliness of such detrimental activities.
Instead, a good idea would be to increase the amount of time a teen needs a permit for, in order to get more experience before actually getting a license. Advocates of raising the driving age often cite immaturity as a reason that the sixteen to eighteen age group has so many crashes. This is the part of the problem that raising the driving age will best address, but not all young drivers are immature. It would be unfair to punish the group as a whole for the actions of a few. Besides, there is already a way to prevent teens from driving before they are ready.
More liquor will be sold to the patrons, which will increase the amount of money the government can make. An alternative policy is to legalize drinking but drive up the monetary price though new taxes. As long as young adults' alcohol demand is at least somewhat responsive to price, taxation can reduce consumption by as much as the current legal drinking age of twenty-one does. (Donald Kenkel, Acess my Library,3) If eighteen year olds do not have legal access to even a beer in a public place, they are ill equipped to deal with the responsibilities that come with drinking when they do have the right. Local business will also do better by being able to sell alcohol to more people as well.
With this frame of mindset, it’s extremely important for the federal government to uphold and keep the drinking age at a constant. As teenagers mature into young adults, peer pressure and social influences become factors that may contribute towards irresponsible decisions. Since 1984, the federal drinking age was raised to 21, which tremendously benefited teens and young adults in the United States (Kirszner, Mandell 458). Drinking is among the greatest misleading decisions made among individuals at parties, especially in college, so it’s always necessary to maintain responsibilities. Currently, college students mainly drink due to the convenience of accessibility to obtain substances from older acquaintances or friends who also enjoy having a good time.
Alcohol abuse not only causes economic problems for the user but also to the user’s friends, family and, society. In the Unites States the effects of alcohol consumption on health and safety constitute a substantial economic burden, reducing the overall standard of living. Over the years it has been proven that during hard economic times, alcohol consumption increases as the economy decreases. It has also shown that when alcohol prices increase the demand for alcohol decreases. The sale of beer, wine and other spirits are responsive to price.
Positive Effects of a Lower Drinking Age in America Arguments about the United States drinking age are commonly discussed. The law is thought of by some as a great way to keep young adults out of trouble, but by others it is thought to be an unsuccessful law that has only brought harm to many young adults. Not enough people are taking action in changing the drinking age to eighteen, which may be because Americans feel it is not necessary or because American citizens have not thought into full detail about all of the positive effects a lower drinking age could have. The United States Federal Government believes that citizens under twenty one years of age are not fully developed and consuming alcohol can harm their development, but America has the highest drinking age in the world. Other countries with low drinking ages do not have major health problems concerning alcohol and their young adults, thus proving alcohol is not necessarily unhealthy for developing young adults.
How does it sound?What I mean is if you can do all these at the age of 18, why cant make your own decisions about alcohol consumption? I know that lowering drinking age to the age of 18 will probably led more traffic accidents, more crimes and more early teen fertility. However there is one truth is that people can not
Kristine Lim Professor Aaron Stell English 101 2 August 2015 Let’s Drink to That! Introduction It is no hidden fact that the abuse of alcohol by adolescents and teens is undoubtedly an important health problem in the United States (Bonnie & O Connell 58). Under age drinking is defined as the illegal consumption of alcohol by adolescents less than twenty-one years of age (Piehl 16). Alcohol is the most widely used and abused substance by youths, who have not yet attained the legal age of drinking (Hanes 39). The consequences or the effects of underage drinking are serious, and they do not only affect the teenage taking part in the activity but also the entire society in general.
has such a problem with alcoholism is because the legal age of drinking is twenty-one. According to the newspaper article Should the Legal Drinking Age Be Lowered, written by Lindsay Bolles states the idea of the reactance theory. “The reactance theory says that when people feel their freedom is somehow threatened, they are motivated to indulge in the threatened behavior just to prove that their free will is not compromised.” (Bolles) When the legal age of drinking is twenty-one some people feel that this goes against their free will and think that they should have the right to choose to drink or not. Some people may see drinking alcohol before the age of twenty one as a way of rebellion or a way of showing adulthood and maturity. These views that some people have are the reasons why underage people drink as much and as often as they do.