2008 Fall Critical Thinking Research Topic: Drinking Age
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Why the drinking age should be lowered
Summary/Reconstruction This site argues that the drinking age should be lowered to prevent. The reason they have include, treating alcohol as a forbidden fruit will only encourage students to drink illegally. They support this point by providing statistics of legal drinkers and underage drinkers. These statistics outline how the drinking amongst underage drinkers is more severe than that of legal drinkers.
Ethan Fleming
Age 21 drinking laws protect youth
Summary/Reconstruction
This article talks about how raising the drinking age to 21 has resulted in lowering the number of deaths and injuries from teens driving under the influence, and therefore, has kept teens safer. It talks about how 20,000 lives have been saved as a result of congress passing a law to have a national drinking age of 21, making this uniform between the states.
Rachel Wagner
Debate on lowering the drinking age bubbling up
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20249460/
Summary/Reconstruction I found this link to be helpful becaused it introduces reasons for and against lowering the drinking age. It put ideas into my head and possibly yours. Opening up the issue that having the age at 21 has reduced drunk driving, yet has also opened up the fact taht drinking underage is now done on the underground level. Having drinking behind closed doors leads to unsupervised and potentially dangerous drinking.
Landon Block
A Lower Drinking Age Would Be Unsafe
Finding and Link http://proxy.foley.gonzaga.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=tth&AN=34274767&site=ehost-live
Summary/Reconstruction This link is sends you to a good argument for why the age should be 21. It gives stats as well as on epoin tof view on the subject. It is however, a bias link because it only looks at one side of the matter. I find this link to be useful when trying to get a good backround on the subject because it does not dive to deep into the issue.
Landon Block
Younger Males Drink Most, and Sometimes Too Much.
Finding and Link http://proxy.foley.gonzaga.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=tth&AN=11348594&site=ehost-live
Summary/Reconstruction If you are looking for stats, come to this site. The stats were done by the "Gallup Poll" whether or not that is credible. One thing you may want to consider is that the stats were done in 2003, however, it is a good basis for comparison.
Landon Block
Minimum Age Limits Worldwide
http://www.icap.org/PolicyIssues/YoungPeoplesDrinking/AgeLawsTable/tabid/219/Default.aspx
this page just has a table that lists all the minimum drinking ages for countries around the world. It has the laws for buying on and off premises as well as some notes for countries that have special circumstances
Austin Larson
