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Why We Should Keep the Drinking Age at Twenty-one By Barry T. ...
You get back to your house with a few friends and feel a party is in order, so you start
drinking a few beers after your parents go to bed. ... Stories like this compel me to believe that the legal
drinking age should be kept at twenty-one. Almost every state set a legal drinking age of
twenty-one, the legal voting age at the time, after prohibition was repealed. Between 1970
and 1975, twenty-nine states lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen,
twenty-nine states also lowered their drinking age to eighteen or nineteen. During the late
seventies, studies showed that traffic crashes had drastically increased after lowering the
drinking age. Once this was announced publicly, many groups created a movement to
increase the minimal drinking age, and sixteen states responded. The Uniform Drinking
Act was passed in 1984. This strongly encouraged the remaining thirteen states to raise
their drinking age. ... Many would
argue that when the drinking age were set at twenty-one, there is an unavoidably huge
increase in alcohol use when youths, turning twenty-one, “make up for lost time.”
However, a study done by Alexander Wagenaar and PM O’Malley found that when the
minimum drinking age was twenty-one, there was a lower use of alcohol after they turn
twenty-one.
Approximate Word count = 1034
Approximate Pages = 4.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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