The Drinking Age: An 18-Year-Olds Right
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Ever since the end of prohibition in 1933 the United States
government has placed the issue of MLDA (minimum legal drinking age)
sensitively in the hands of the states, letting each decide for itself what
the minimum age should be. At that time all agreed that the minimum legal
drinking age shoul ....
Middle of paper
.... determine whether or not
the younger drinking ages had any effect on automobile accidents. These
studies generally concluded that traffic accidents significantly increased
among teenagers after the MLDA was lowered.(Toomey 1) It can, however,
easily be argued that since these studies came out right after the drinking
ages had been lowered, they would naturally show that there was an increase
in death among teenagers. Anytime you change something dramatically it
takes a while for things to ....
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Word count: 1958
Page count: 8 (approximately 250 words per page)
