Lower drinking age resulted in more traffic injuries
Lower drinking age resulted in more traffic injuries
For three body paragraphs, one paragraph support the thesis, one paragraph against the thesis and the rest one discuss both sides of the thesis. Use those four articles as resources. High light the sentences you quote, summarize or paraphrase.
Do not contain any of personal opinions.
This essay should not be more than 500 words.
You have 5 hours to complete the essay.
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Perils of Prohibition
Why we should lower the drinking age to 18
by Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D.
My colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health, where I studied preventive medicine, deserve high praise for their recent study on teenage drinking. What they found in their survey of college students was that they drink “early and…often,” frequently to the point of getting ill.
As a public-health scientist with a daughter, Christine, heading to college this fall, I have professiona
l and personal concerns about teen binge drinking. It is imperative that we explore why so many young people abuse alcohol. From my own study of the effects of alcohol restrictions and my observations of Christine and her friends’ predicament about drinking, I believe that today’s laws are unrealistic. Prohibiting the sale of liquor to responsible young adults creates an atmosphere where binge drinking and alcohol abuse have become a problem. American teens, unlike their European peers, don’t learn how to drink gradually, safely and in moderation.
Alcohol is widely accepted and enjoyed in our culture. Studies show that moderate drinking can be good for you. But we legally proscribe alcohol until the age of 21 (why not 30 or 45?). Christine and her classmates can drive cars, fly planes, marry, vote, pay taxes, take out loans and risk their lives as members of the U.S. armed forces. But laws in all 50 states say that no alcoholic beverages may be sold to anyone until that magic “21” birthday.