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The Drinking Age: Legal Age Should Be 18
The legal drinking age in all states should be eighteen. First, the
problems and costs associated with underage drinking might be alleviated.
Second, studies show that alcohol is easily obtained, and most eighteen-
year-olds who do so drink sensibly. Next ....
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.... It is hard not
allowing eighteen-year-olds to drink when over 90% of the underage
population say it is very easy to obtain alcohol. A 1994 study on substance
abuse found that 55.7% of eighteen-year-olds in the U.S. and Alberta,
Canada drink sensibly. (The Age of Exile, March 25, 1995, p.1) Studies in
the 1970s show that underage drinking causes as many drunk-driving
fatalities as are caused by twenty-one-year-old drivers. (Warren Boroson,
Drinking Age, August 8, 1993, p. 2)
Eighteen-year-olds whose parents introduced alcohol to them when
the ....
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