Alcohol Age should be 18- Lindsay Haw

I think the alcohol age should be changed to 18 everywhere. The minimum age required to buy or drink alcohol is zero to twenty-one all across the world. Here in Florida it just happens to be twenty-one. This is barbaric. I think a good age to be able to buy and consume alcohol should be eighteen. Eighteen is a perfect drinking age because you are an adult. You have many responsibilities and are mature enough to make your own decisions about many things including alcohol. Eighteen year-old’s are aloud to vote, buy cigarettes, drive, be drafted and are responsible for their own actions. If a teenager is aloud to go to war and shoot a gun, I find it ridiculous that they are not aloud to sit down and have a beer after they might have just killed someone. Society says that teenagers are too immature and will make mistakes like drinking and driving and that teenagers cause all of the car accidents dealing with alcohol. This is false because I have seen all over the news, people in their forties and fifties getting DUI’s. They say that teenagers can not handle alcohol, but all people who first start drinking are just learning their limits. Alcohol is a serious issue in today’s society no matter what age you are, It does not matter if your eighteen or if your forty- five. Illegal drinking is happening all the time if you want believe it or not. College parties happen all the time and not being allowed to drink means you have to be sneaky about it. All the time teenagers drive under the influence because they hear that the cops are coming to bust the party and they get scared because they can get in serious trouble for illegal drinking. If the drinking age was eighteen, then they would not go out and drive while intoxicated because they know if the cops come, that they are obeying the law and they have nothing to hide. Now I understand how the older society and generations think it is too young to be consuming alcohol, but what a lot of us hate to do is face reality, and whether you want to believe it or not the reality is that drinking is happening at younger ages. I think that having the age at 21 just makes the situation worse. If any law were to be twenty-one is should be cigarettes. Over 400,000 deaths in the U.S. are caused from smoke-related illnesses each year. Around 75,000 deaths are caused from alcohol-related incidents each year. That is a huge difference. Smoking is a major cause of many different cancers especially lung cancer. Alcohol does not have nicotine and is not addictive like cigarettes are.

http://www.indiana.edu/~engs/articles/cqoped.html http://www.alcoholfacts.org/

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