Intro Here in Washington the legal age of drinking is 21, yet all over Washington that law is broke and not followed. Although drinking by people under the age of 21 is illegal, the people that are ages 12 to 20 years drink 11% of all alcohol consumed in the United States. Which is crazy to think underage drinkers drink more than over age drinkers. Americans abuse the use of alcohol, yet underage drinkers abuse it the most. Our economy suffers from this as well for instants, excessive drinking is what is responsible for more than 4,300 deaths among underage people each year and the cost of alcohol in the U.S. is $24 billion in economic costs in 2010. Statistics an Age Groups Alcohol is one the most leading deaths for underage drinkers, most …show more content…
When this happens there more of a risk of them drowning, fighting making bad decisions and other risky behaviors like unsafe sex and drug use. The long term affects are more of heart and central nervous system damage, memory loss, and cirrhosis and cancer of the liver. As you can see there are many things that can affect the children body as they drink underage for so long, slowly hurting themselves an there body. Yet kids can be introduced way earlier than that for instance while in the mother’s womb when mothers drink while pregnant it increases the deaths of their infants inside them or after their born, this usually happens from SIDS sudden infant death syndrome. This is from the mother dinking while pregnant with her baby. Conclusion So now you see how bad alcohol affects underage kids and how they abuse it every day without people knowing. Underage drinkers want to fit in, be cool, be happy and have fun, they think that’s what cool people do, but with each drink they drink they don’t realize its killing there body and changing them. Underage drinking abuse needs to be helped, the kids need the help, and need educated on what happens to their bodies they need cared for and