“Should the Drinking Age Be Lowered?” » we have been debating this for years. The history of the legal minimum drinking age dates back to the end of Prohibition in 1933. Lawmakers at the time set 21 as the minimum age for consuming alcohol. However, this age has changed over the years. Between 1970 and 1975, 29 states lowered the legal drinking age to 18, 19, or 20. This was due to the lowering of the voting age from 21 to 18. Numerous scientific studies have shown that the increase in traffic accidents and deaths was due to For people who drank between the ages of 18 and 19 between 1979 and 1983, many states that had lowered the drinking age alcohol brought him back to 21. In 1984, all changes resulted in unification. Congress passed the National Minimum Legal Drinking Age Act of 1984. The law punished all states that did not raise the minimum legal drinking age to 21. As a result, the legal drinking age has been 21 since this law was enacted. Since then, researchers have been advocating for lowering the drinking age again. People who think the drinking age should be lowered are doing so because of three facts. Under the nation's minimum drinking age law, fewer young adults are drinking, but when they do drink, they tend to drink more, which leads to a bigger problem: binge drinking. 'alcohol. Additionally, people can vote, adopt children, register for Iraq, or become a commercial pilot at 18. It is therefore a double standard to set the drinking age at 21. Another point is that children will drink regardless of legality. It's better to lower the drinking age so they can do it legally and parents can contact them more easily. On the other hand, some people think that the government should not lower the legal drinking age, because... middle of paper ...... the legal drinking age Alcohol causes more car accidents among young adults. The majority of the population requires personal care for transportation. Most American children learn to drive around age 16. Whether the legal drinking age is 18 or 21, alcohol-related traffic deaths are a major problem in the states. In 2010, alcohol-impaired driving crashes killed 10,228 people, accounting for 31% of all traffic-related deaths in the United States. What would happen if more young people started drinking after lowering the legal drinking age? According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in 2006, 2,121 people aged 16 to 20 died from alcohol on U.S. roads, but in 1984 the figure was 4,612. According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates, Highway Traffic Safety Administration, about 800 lives are saved each year by raising the drinking age limit. 21.