Persuasive Essay: Why the drinking age should be lowered.

Essay by DyloniumHigh School, 10th gradeA, February 2007

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Three out of every ten American teenagers will be involved in an alcohol-related crash which is often fatal, as concluded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. How are you sure that one of those three teenagers will not be you?

Lowering the drinking age will lower death rates from destructive decisions across the United States, specifically from drunk driving. Lowering the drinking age is such a simple concept, yet it is so hard to achieve, for people cannot quite see the benefits of such a thing happening. Although it is difficult to grasp the idea that drunk driving rates will decline as a result of lowering the drinking age, this is proven to be true.

On a smaller-scale model, in England, the drinking age is eighteen as opposed to the United State's twenty-one, yet there drunk driving rates are significantly less than ours. Although England has a much lower drinking age than the United States, the drinkers of alcohol in England by age twenty-two seem more mature with the use of alcohol and are more likely not to abuse it.

England develops mature drinkers at a younger age, creating a more peaceful social structure throughout their nation.

Although it may be claimed that teenagers make careless decisions when handling mature matters, you must understand that teenagers are more easily taught than adults, therefore they will mature earlier and continuously stay more mature throughout their life when having to deal with such mature matters as drinking at a much younger age. Additionally, it may be understood that families will become more unstable for the fact that more alcoholics will be present in home-life, yet with the former statements indicated, this will not occur, for by the time these teenagers reach adulthood, they will be mature and able...