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...National Minimum Drinking Age Act. The bill, also known as Section 158, denied federal highway funds to any state which did not raise its drinking age to 21. Within three years, all fifty states were in compliance. Section 158 was written and passed at the behest of groups like MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) who saw raising the drinking age as an integral part of their campaign to crack down on drunk driving...
Privileges restricted by age should have either a philosophical or practical basis. By linking the drinking age to the issue of drunk driving, MADD and its allies argued their case on practical grounds. Certainly, a drinking age of 21 has no intrinsic philosophical justification. The age of majority is 18. It is at that age that citizens get the right to vote, to make valid contracts and such. For men, it is the age at which they can be conscripted and die for their country. The inconsistency of soldiers being denied the privilege to drink is sufficiently jarring--so jarring...
Tammy Weddel, of the Public Affairs Department of the National Office for Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) in Hurst, Texas, a lobbyist group against drunk driving, said MADD is "very pleased overall with the broadcasting industry in promoting the anti-drunk driving message." She added that "public awareness has improved overall in the last decade...
MOTHERS Against Drunk Driving--better know as MADD--recently announced that it has awarded Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) an award "for outstanding public service." It is unclear whether MADD is also now thinking of moving its national headquarters to Chappaquidick, Mass...
Media interest in drunk driving peaked in 1983 after the fierce lobbying efforts of MADD and other groups resulted in harsher anti-drunk driving legislation and the raising of the drinking age, says DeJong. He cites work done by MADD and the Department of Transportation as "changing the way people view the problem of drunk driving, not seeing it as just one of those things that happens, no longer viewing it as much as an 'accident...