http://livingtextblog.andosciasociology.net/2009/11/15/alcohol-age-should-be-18-lindsay-haw/ Tue, 22 May 2012 06:43:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://livingtextblog.andosciasociology.net/2009/11/15/alcohol-age-should-be-18-lindsay-haw/#comment-19792 Mr. Andoscia Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:19:05 +0000 http://livingtextblog.andosciasociology.net/2009/11/15/alcohol-age-should-be-18-lindsay-haw/#comment-19792 How about raising the "going to war" age? How about raising the “going to war” age?

]]> http://livingtextblog.andosciasociology.net/2009/11/15/alcohol-age-should-be-18-lindsay-haw/#comment-19789 lacey syverson Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:12:40 +0000 http://livingtextblog.andosciasociology.net/2009/11/15/alcohol-age-should-be-18-lindsay-haw/#comment-19789 though i see where you are coming from when comparing it to the enlistment age and cigarette ages, i have to disagree with you on the matter. though the average death rates among youths (under 21)while drunk driving have declined in the last decade, the number is still quite high. Of young people involved in alcohol-impaired driving fatalities, 5 youths die each day in alcohol-impaired driving crashes. (Source: NHTSA/FARS, 2008) if that is the number now when the legal age is 21 this number can only increase with a lowered drinking age. Motor vehicle crashes remain the number one cause of death among youth ages 15-20. There were 7,460 youth motor vehicle deaths in 2005. (This includes both drivers and passengers.) 28% of these youths had been drinking during the time of the crash. http://www.sadd.org/stats.htm though i see where you are coming from when comparing it to the enlistment age and cigarette ages, i have to disagree with you on the matter. though the average death rates among youths (under 21)while drunk driving have declined in the last decade, the number is still quite high. Of young people involved in alcohol-impaired driving fatalities, 5 youths die each day in alcohol-impaired driving crashes. (Source: NHTSA/FARS, 2008) if that is the number now when the legal age is 21 this number can only increase with a lowered drinking age. Motor vehicle crashes remain the number one cause of death among youth ages 15-20. There were 7,460 youth motor vehicle deaths in 2005. (This includes both drivers and passengers.)
28% of these youths had been drinking during the time of the crash.
http://www.sadd.org/stats.htm

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