U.S. citizens can join the military, serve on a jury, and vote at age 18, but they can’t drink alcohol legally until they are 21. In 1984, Congress passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act in response to evidence that states with higher drinking ages had fewer traffic fatalities associated with alcohol. Some college administrators, however, believe that raising the drinking age has not reduced drinking among 18- to 21-year-olds but instead has driven it underground, where it is more difficult to regulate.
How do you think reducing the drinking age to 18 would change things? Would it increase drinking among 18- to 21-year-olds substantially? Would it increase alcohol-related negative consequences, such as drunk driving? If the drinking age were lowered to 18, are there programs that might counteract possible negative consequences?
Search the internet for drinking ages in other countries? Are they the same or different? What are their rates of drunk driving? Be sure to cite your sources!
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