he legalized drinking age is twenty-one, but a lot of kids nowadays are starting to drink at the age of fifteen! “Once kids hit the age of fifteen, thirty-three percent have had at least one drink.”
( The National Health Institution) In recent reports in two thousand fifteen, it says “ 7.7 million young people between the ages twelve and twenty have drunk more than just a few sips”
(Griggs). We should not lower the drinking age because, there will be more drinking and driving, binge drinking, and it will cause health problems.
“ In two thousand fourteen nine thousand and nine hundred sixty-seven people were killed in a drinking a driving accident” ( CNN). Kids who just turn sixteen are already having trouble driving, imagine if they were able
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Young adults from the ages twelve to twenty drink eleven percent of the alcohol consumed in the United States of America. Even though the youth may not drink as often as adults do when the young adults do consume alcohol they can drink a lot more. “The reason this happens is that more of the youth consumes more than ninety percent of their alcohol by binge drinking”(NIH)! Kids start at an early and become alcoholics and have a higher chance of dying sooner than the usual.I feel like if we drop the age limit for drinking, we will see a lot more binge drinking, alcoholics, and either now or later our average age for life will drop lower. Kids who could’ve gone to live a long happy life are drinking it away into bottles of beer, losing their livelihoods, going broke, and worst of all dying at an early age. Kids will cease their opportunity if the age is lowered. Kids party more, smoke
Gotcher 3 more, and binge drink more than ever and if we are to make it legal for them to drink at an early age, imagine what will be next in our society. Smoking could become legal in all states or just