The drinking age in the United States is a contradiction. At the age of eighteen, one can drive a car, vote in an election, get married, serve in the military and buy tobacco products. In the United States you are legally an adult at eighteen. An eighteen-year-old, however, can not purchase alcoholic beverages. The minimum drinking age should be lowered from twenty-one in the United States.Unbelievably, the United States citizens trust their sixteen-year-old children …
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…be deterred, and many lives will be saved, but only through the education by parents and society. The drinking age should and can be lowered with the approval and assistance from the citizens of the United States.Work CitedWhelan, Elizabeth. "Perils of Prohibition." Current Issues and Enduring Questions. Ed. Sylvan Barnet and Hugo Bedau. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999. 83-85 Cool StuffWin $100,000 by Playing Online Games Free Voicemail FREE Internet Access Free Long Distance