Lowering the Drinking Age has no Benefits (Essay Sample)

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Lowering the Drinking Age has no Benefits
According to extensive research done on the process to save lives of people, and also minimising of injuries through intervention on drinking and driving Robert (pg. 591) made some attempts to some of the roles that mainly affected the legalisation of the minimum age of drinking to be 21. Based on the research made by public health "the lowering of the drinking age seems to be out of range by some self-selected facts and conjecture glib”. The lowering of the drinking age might present advantageous some of the professions such as for the military youths but this should be the basis for lowering the age of drinking.
The basis in which the youth are chosen into the profession is due to their age and they are not yet developed and the moulding them to be soldiers is easier(Robert, p.591). Maintaining the drinking age at the age of 21 presents more benefits than when the age is lowered. The benefits of the fixed age of drinking at 21 years as given below as presented by the Robert Vaos in the text book (p.591-592).
The 21 law for drinking age should be maintained since "the drinking of the youth is dangerous as they are developing mentally and physically as well. This can be argued that they also lack experience and they are not ready to take the risks exposed to them when they are drunk" . According to Robert(p.592), in most of the states when "the drinking age was 18 years, the youths who were under the age of 21 drink more and the progress of the drinking habit continued to their adult age of early 20’s. This was in contrast to the states in which the drinking age was 21 as the teenagers showcased to drink less and they continued to drink less in the early adult age of early 20’s”.
There were fewer cases of accidents at the drinking minimum age of 21.This was reflected by "the reduced due to little enforcement and penalties that are tough and were yet to be enacted. From the findings by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the minimum law of 21 had led to a lot of lives to be saved since when the states began raising the drinking age in 1975" (Robert, p.592). Under drinking presents so...