The United States government should lower the drinking age.

The drinking age should be lowered because of all the Teens and Youth benge drinking.

Benge drinking is a bad thing because they drink as much as they possibly can at one time because they dont know when they are going to be able to drink again.

The bad effects of benge drinking are:

1. You get so drunk alot of times you pass out

2. Drinking that much at one time can lead to death because of alcohol posining

3. You try to drive a vehicle and that could kill you and other people on the road

4. its just not good to benge drink

 

If they would lower the drinking age there would be less benge drinking and teens would not get as drunk because they know they can just go buy it and have one or two. They would not have to get drunk because they can get it anytime and just not at partys on the weekend.

If they would lower the drinking age the benefits would be

1. Less drunks

2. Less DUI's

3. Increased attendance and grades in school

4. Increased attendance at workp>

 

Here are some fact about underage drinking:

The 2007 Youth Risk Behavior Survey5 found that among high school students, during the past 30 days:

Percent of teens-

45% drank some amount

26% Binge Drink

16% of 8th graders and 44% of 12th graders drank during the past month.

74% had at least one drink of alcohol on one or more days during their life.

26% had their first drink of alcohol, other than a few sips, before age 13.

43% had at least one drink of alcohol on one or more occasion in the past 30 days.

26% had five or more drinks of alcohol in a row (i.e. binge drinking) in the past 30 days.

4% had at least one drink of alcohol on school property on one or more of the past 30 days.

In 2005, underage drinkers consumed 15.0% of all alcohol sold in the United States, totaling
$19.8 billion in sales. These sales provided profits of $3.6 billion to the alcohol industry.1

Total funds available for combating underage drinking $2.8 billion
Total underage drinking sales $19.8 billion
Total alcohol industry profits on underage drinking $3.6 billion
Total underage drinking costs $60.3 billion

So as you can see there are alot of teens drinking underage now.

In 2005 Underage drinking cost about $60.3 billion. That is alot of money. The government could use that money else where to help our economy other than underage drinking. If they would lower the drinking age that is $60.3 billion they didn't have available before.

We are spending $2.8 billion to try to combat underage drinking. That could be used for other problems such as the high oil price. and other things like that.

Obviously the $2.8 billion is being waisted because it is not helping combat underage drinking. They are not going to be able to stop underage teens from drinking im sorry but there is no way. Teens are going to be teens they are going to see how much they can get away with. There would be a lot less teen drinkers if they would make it legal for them to drink. They just want to see how much they can get away with before they get into trouble.

 

In 2005 underage drinkers consumed 15% of all alcohol sold in the United States. As you can see teens are going to drink so why not make it legal and the governmet would make alot of money because of sales tax.

Clearly, efforts to eliminate underage drinking have failed. It is also plain that many successful Americans have a history of high school and college alcohol use - sometimes involving of periods of excess. If youthful drinking were a genuine bar to political office, higher education or career advancement, government, academia and industry would grind to a halt.

As a result, politicians call for ever stricter legislation; activists say that alcohol advertising is targeting teens and should be banned; and schools enact "zero tolerance" policies that expel kids for doing once what the vast majority of American adults did many times at their age.

The government is trying to put underage drinking to a halt but its not working. So they need to make it legal. Almost every parent and adult drank during there highschool years. They use to do it but they are trying to tell teens they can't. That is being a hipocrit

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