Why The Legal Drinking Age Should Be Lowered To Eighteen
In the United States, it is illegal to consume alcohol until the age of twenty-one.
At the age of 18 people are considered adults. "The right of citizens of the United States,
who are eighteen-years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the
United States or any state on account of age (Amendment 26, Section 1 of the
Constitution). At the age of eighteen, a person can get married, vote, drive, take out
loans, pay taxes, buy tobacco, have sex, be tried as an adult, have children, use credit
cards, buy real estate, act independently of parents and be in the armed forces and die for
their country.
If we look at Vietnam War, half of the soldiers that fought in that war were under the age
of twenty-one, and a lot of them were 17 to 19 years old. Yet that person still can not
drink alcohol. Also we can smoke when we are eighteen. Smoking kills just as many
people if not more than drinking. Smoking......
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