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ok so my arugument for my paper is why the drinking age should be lowered to 18. Does anyone know any good websites?
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I found a few by Googling 'drinking age 21'. Here's an excerpt from the first page to come up:
* Dr. Ruth Clifford Engs of Indiana University, an internationally-known health educator and alcohol researcher, believes that the minimum drinking age of 21 in the US is too high.
* Dr. David J. Hanson of the State University of New York at Potsdam evaluates research regarding the effectiveness of age 21 minimum age legislation.
There are links from this and even a table of different drinking ages in different nations. One thing you could argue is something like 'in (Random Country), the drinking age is 16. But children are raised around people using but not abusing alcohol. What we need to do is lower the drinking age and instead, focus on re-educating the public and changing the image of irresponsible drinking from cool to stupid. When we expose teens at a younger age to the privilege of alcohol while they are still closer to their parents' care, rather than waiting until they are away from home, we can provide the opportunity for teens to consume alcohol in more responsible ways and to see its effects more clearly while they still have a supportive home life (rather than in fraternities, etc).' There's also a problem with the fact that it's the last of the privileges we Americans get. We can drive, vote, purchase property, get married, have kids, and die for our country all before we can crack a beer. Why single out this one thing above the others as something we cannot trust our young adults with?
I know you asked for websites and there were a lot of things that came up rather quickly for me.
Just in case you didn't know, the drinking age was raised to 21 via financial force through the federal government. They said that kids drinking and driving were raising the death toll on the highways and they would reduce federal highway funds for any state that did not comply with the federal recommendation of a 21 drinking age. Some states held out for a long time, but money talks.
Hope you find what you need.
Sabine
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