Underage drinking is the most overlooked problem in the united states. Drinking and not being 21 or older, has caused more than 189,000 emergency room visits, about 190,000 have been in serious accidents involving drinking. More and more teens abuse alcohol each day. Growing is a big part of your life, but for some people growth for them stop at a very young age, when alcohol is involved at a young age. Drinking and not being of age can affect your body in many ways. It can cause health problems
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Little Liars are all examples of television shows that depict underage drinking. Superbad, Neighbors, Scream, and Scary Movie are a few examples of movies that show a predominate amount of drinking of alcohol by teenagers. These movies and programs show attractive, young, popular kids drinking alcohol. Is this the example that modern kids try to follow? Scenes in movies and on television depicting drinking can greatly influence the drinking habits of teenagers (Preston, 2015). Many works of research
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Does the current drinking age really stop underage drinking? Each state in the union has set their drinking age at twenty-one since 1984. Ever since then the underage drinking has not stopped. The drinking legal age of alcohol in the United States of America should be eliminated and replaced with a purchasing age of twenty-one and a non-existent drinking or consumption age in order to allow younger citizens to drink responsibly under the guidance of a someone responsible. To start with, several
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In 2013, Ethan Couch was sentenced two years behind bars after killing four people while he was drunk driving. Underage drinking and driving does not only put the driver in danger but it risks other people’s lives and it has been a major issue that our society has been facing for many years. Under the law it is illegal for a person under the age of 21 to drive a motor vehicle with a blood or breath alcohol concentration level of 0.02% or higher, yet many teens make exception for themselves and
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addicted are underage, and there needs to be fix for this. Although the situation on underage drinking is slowly becoming better, there are still many lives being ruined every year. Increasing the drinking age would improve the situation of underage drinking because it would prevent damage, increase punishment for drinking underage, and decrease the risk of alcohol related fatalities. First of all, Alcohol is abused by many who are underage, but there are many ways to fix this. Drinking below the age
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Annotated Bibliography for Underage Drinking Heather Myers DeVry University Annotated Bibliography for Underage Drinking The author stares that, “39% of current 8th graders, 58% of 10th graders, 72% of 12th graders, and 85% of college students have tried alcohol” (Bowersox 2013). Now think in eighth grade the teen is only fourteen years old! That is seven years under the state designated drinking age of twenty-one years. Why is the community allowing teens to drink under the age of twenty-one
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Underage drinking has become a big problem in our society today. Many young teens die daily due to drinking alcohol, because these teens are abusing the age policy of drinking. Underage drinking is a problem today because it is causing teens to act out in a certain way. This is a problem because teens drinking cause not only health problems, but causes rapes and car accidents. More than half of American youths ages 12 to 20 have tried alcohol. Girls are nearly as likely as boys to experiment with
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Underage Drinking Rebuttal Analysis Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Abstract Most college students in the U.S fall between the 18-21 age bracket. As is custom, the highlight of an active collegiate lifestyle is partying, where binge drinking is the highlight of the day. In retrospect, the legal drinking age still stands at 21. Some proponents for the lowering of the legal drinking age from 18 to 21 contend that at that age, one is appended adult-like responsibilities such as the
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run. Alcohol is a problem that moves multiple people and families, but it’s affecting teenagers. I would present to you that underage drinking needs to come to end before it’s too late for some. Some people might reason that there really aren’t all that many underage drinkers, but in fact there are twelve point five million underage drinking each year. Also underage drinking consumed fifteen percent of the total alcohol consumed in 2005. You could even speculate that there isn’t that much wrong with
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Underage Drinking According to the 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the rate of alcohol consumption is 73% for underage drinkers between the ages of 12-20. These statistics demonstrate that the laws prohibiting those under 21 to drink really only “encourages them to dodge the system” because they want what they can’t have (Glaser 1). Therefore, the current legal drinking age of 21 is merely unjust and illogical. The age for alcohol consumption should be lowered from the age of 21 to 18
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