Bid by College Presidents to Lower the Drinking Age Remains a Long Shot
Binge drinking may be worsening on campus, but the British experience is a cautionary tale
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drinking
people of the age 18 alreadu drink anyway so the increase of wrecks would of already happend. i disagree wit that 15 year old girl totally because 18 year olds already drink and drive duh.
drinking
people of the age 18 alreadu drink anyway so the increase of wrecks would of already happend. i disagree wit that 15 year old girl totally because 18 year olds already drink and drive duh.
just pass the law
if your gonna pass a law where poeple can smoke at 18 then pass the law of drinking when 18 because everyine around here already smokes or drinks if you dont pass it the parents will just continue buying it or our friends will theresno stopping anyone anymore.the world has changed and wereall gonna die anyway of golbal warming so let us have fun you did
drinkin
poeple are gona drink no matter the age they do it anyways so just pass the it already...
Something needs to Change
As a highschooler and younger, I never touched alcohol even though my peers did. My parents strongly discouraged drinking under 21 and I abided. That is, until I went off to college.
Not knowing my limits when I first drank in college, I definitely "binge drank" according to the formal definition. But once I was 21 I knew my limit and how much I could tolerate.
I was thrown into a party atmosphere, where alcohol was readily available at the age of 18. I believe if the drinking age would have been 18, I could have been introduced to alcohol responsibility before I went off to college, preventing my extreme drinking behavior with prior knowledge.
Another thing I don't understand: Our country puts men/women in the stressful (to say the least) situation of going off to war at the age of 18, but those same men/women can not sit down with their friends and have a drink.
Our parents' generation may believe it's safer, but they never had to go through our situation.
lower the drinking age
well i think of it this way you can smoke, vote, die for your country i mean if u can join the armed forces at 18 you should be able to drink its stupid that its 21 anyways
Islolated solutions don't work
To say lowering the drinking at to 18 will reduce the amount of binge drinking and subsequent health problems on college campuses is absurd. It will only increase the availability of the drug to college students and increase its use.
The alcohol abuse issue is not a single faceted problem that can be fixed by a single, isolated action. It is a complex problem that involves psychological, social and environmental factors. The countries where alcohol is viewed as neither good nor bad tend to have fewer problems - but alcohol as neutral is not the case in this country. Alcohol is advertised to youth as a coming-of-age rite of passage, something that will make you more appealing to others and is necessary for a good time.
I don't see lowering the age as an action that will reduce the amount of binge drinking and its negative consequences on college campuses. As stated previously, those who want to drink will drink, regardless of the legal age, so age is not the ultimate limiting factor. Age has little to do with what motivates college students to drink. It is the complex set of psych, social and environmental factors surrounding the individuals that are the better predictors of abuse.
how about
Why does this have to be changed at the national level? Why can't underage drinking on college campuses (frat parties, dorms) be acceptable, without creating a 18+ bar scene everywhere else?
