In the United States the minimum legal drinking age is twenty-one. The legal drinking age has been set to twenty-one to help insure the safety of young adults from motor vehicle accidents, binge drinking, arrests for public intoxication, drinking while driving or other alcohol related incidents. There have been arguments against this drinking age, that it should be lowered from twenty one to eighteen, the legal age of an adult. The legal minimum drinking age for purchasing and consuming alcohol should remain at twenty-one and not be lowered to eighteen because of the amount of drinking, the fatalities caused by drinking while driving, and the increase in arrest that all come when a person turns twenty-one and is legally allowed to consume …show more content…
Factors such as serious health problems including injuries and deaths resulting from car crashes, suicide, homicide, assault, drowning, and recreational injuries were all taken into consideration when the legal minimum drinking age was created. If all of these horrific examples could be reduced just by having the drinking age at twenty-one, why would anyone want to lower it? Another argument against the minimum drinking age is that if the age was lowered than less underage people would actually not want to drink because it is not ‘forbidden fruit’ anymore, this however is not true. Some states in the U.S decided to listen to the public and lower their drinking age, this only caused the problem to be much worse. When the legal drinking age was lower than twenty-one throughout the U.S, underage drunk drivers were involved in over twice as many fatal traffic crashes as today, thus why we have the legal drinking age of