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...Teenagers have also been safer since 21 became the MLDA. The government estimates that the higher age saves up to 1,000 lives a year from drunk-driving accidents. During the 1970s, states that changed their drinking ages to 18 or 19 reported spikes in the frequency of alcohol-related crashes and fatalities. Likewise, New Zealand, which recently lowered its MLDA to 18, was rewarded with 12 percent more crashes involving alcohol among 18-to-19-year-olds and 14 percent more among 15- to-17-year-olds...
...Retired Massachusetts high school teacher Ann Marie Gagne recounted witnessing the proliferation of alcohol first-hand in the 1970s. The situation deteriorated to the point that one high-school senior “showed up for school so drunk that he couldn’t get out of his car.” Clearly, teenagers tipple for reasons other than alcohol’s illicit appeal. Although at times it might seem that underage drinking is so prevalent that the drinking age is irrelevant, in practice a higher MLDA does play a role in prevention...
...almost alone in the world with its high MLDA. As has been seen, however, America would not respond well to foreign countries’ rules after forging a drinking culture based on limiting drinking to 21 and over. For one, Americans drive more and therefore suffer more consequences from drunk driving. For another, the rest of the world may actually have evolved higher physiological tolerances for alcohol, an effect that Americans cannot hope to duplicate overnight. Finally, research shows that European countries, at least, do actually have an alcohol problem: Europe, as a whole, consumes far more,per capita than...
...solve it. Although 18-to-20-year-olds would feel more comfortable seeking medical assistance for alcohol poisoning, younger teenagers, whose chances of becoming a victim of alcohol poisoning would increase, would not. Also, given that 98 percent of conclusive studies found an inverse relationship between MLDA and drunk-driving accidents, lives saved in hospitals may still be lost behind the wheel...
...times at Harvard there will be a party and there will be a room of people drinking or something. I personally find that kind of boring. I don’t want to sit around and watch people drunk. So if they have a good concert that’s an artist that I want to go see, you know, then I would go see it. And I would be out of my room. And I would be doing something social, which I’m sure Harvard wants. Because I know they’ve seen...