03/03/03                                                                                                                     Grade: A

Personal Study on Drinking of Teens

    The worlds most infamous drink, and one most people have dared to try. Alcoholic beverages are the only thirst quenching drink that is illegal to drink until the age of twenty-one. This survey is about this rule written in the Constitution. This is a very intriguing topic to someone my age. I decided to write about it because it is something that comes up in my everyday life and I wanted to look farther into it with the help of some other people. I just wanted to know some opinions of my fellow classmates and the more mature people of today's society. What they thought on under age drinking, and what they think the legal drinking age should be.
    The number of people who have admitted to getting drunk is remarkable especially the one's under the age of 18. It was shown in my data that more young men are likely to get drunk than women. However the total number of people still is staggering. The young male ratios were 25:3 saying that they have been drunk compared to have not gotten drunk. What is even more amazing is most of these people have also attested to saying that there will me more young people committing this felony and that they will most likely be in an accident.
    Twenty-one it seems like a good age to start letting people drink. Is it too late though? Are they just trying to hold people back from something that will more than likely be happening anyway? My personal survey says that most people under the age of twenty-one want the drinking age to be eighteen, which makes sense. It is the time we can go to war and buy a cigarette. So why can't we go fight for our country than come back and throw a couple down? Yet another survey says that two-thirds of adults are against lowering the minimum drinking age to 18, according to unscientific telephone surveys by the Wine and Spirit Merchants' Association. So what's wrong with this picture? Adults are telling us that we have to go throw our bodies in front of a bullet for our country, but we can’t have a drink of alcohol. Maybe we are the one's being mature about the subject and the adults are the one's who can’t handle it.
    A survey done by the Journal of Research on Adolescence says that more than thirty percent of high school seniors will report a heavy drinking experience to their parents. Which is five ore more beer's. But it also says that fifty-five percent don't tell their parents about their situation. Maybe if it wasn't something that we illegal maybe people wouldn't have to sneak around and do it. Kids our age are more inclined to do something that is wrong than something that isn't.
    I have to say I must agree with my fellow counterparts on this one. The drinking age should be 18 just like it used to be. We live our lives by our own choices and these rules are just one's we have to break to do that.