Why is the drinking age 18 in europe
Should the USA Lower the Drinking Age to 18?
here in the United States of America
the day you turn 21 this usually happens
there's a procedure contingent you go to
Vegas and you party hard because you are
legally able to drink alcohol
aside from Saudi Arabia Iran Kuwait and
a few other places where alcohol is
banned the u.s. is one of the only
countries in the world that forces its
citizens to wait until twenty-one years
old to drink in more than a hundred and
fifty countries the legal drinking age
is 18 some are 16 others like Benin
don't even have an age limit and in most
places I've been checking IDs is not
strictly enforced unlike the US where
you will get carded even when your hair
is gray I just don't get it in the u.s.
when you turn 18 you can legally vote
serve your country and get married you
can buy cigarettes weed and even a gun
but you can't drink a beer smoking
cigarettes alone is responsible for the
death of more than four hundred and
eighty thousand Americans every year
while drinking leads to just 88,000 and
why is it illegal to drink outside so
many cultures are built around drinking
outdoors like Italian sipping on wine on
church steps or the French enjoying a
picnic by the Eiffel Tower or the
Germans downing pitchers at a beer
garden even in Thailand on weekends some
streets like calcine road are mobbed
with people drinking and dancing outside
in the US don't even try to drink
outdoors or you will be stuck with a
fine or potentially worse let's look
back again at Europe when you grow up in
a society where alcohol is accepted and
consumed at 18 or younger like the Czech
Republic then they learn their limits at
a younger age and don't feel the need to
get wasted
Europeans grow up around alcohol and are
surrounded by people who don't have a
fascination with it because alcohol is
simply a part of life and as you and I
both know when drinking is done
responsibly it's a great way to
socialize or end a long day at work
alright that's it rant over I just wish
that some day my country would lower the
drinking age to 18 not only would it
make adults more responsible but it
would actually save lives
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