Opening Statement Which Includes Research

At 18 years old, you can buy cigarettes as well as tobacco. Along with alcohol these are 2 types of addictive drugs. In this case, it does not make any sense when allowing people to be able to buy these types of harmful, addictive substances at the age of 18 and not allowing people to purchase alcohol until they are 21. When you reach you're 18th birthday you are officially tried as an adult. If you get pulled over and are doing something illegal you get arrested, at 18 you are officially legal to buy a home and live on you're own, at 18 you are officially allowed to vote as well as buy your own land. At 18 you are officially responsible for yourself which is why when people say "putting the drinking availability age off until 21, saves lives," makes me very confused. If you are officially responsible for yourself then you should also be able to control yourself when drinking especially if you are required to drive that day as well as doing something else that requires any type of physical activity. However, if you do not wanna do so and you want to abuse alcohol and are not able to control yourself then you are going to have to pay the price and learn a life lesson. The basis of the decision of the drinking age in the U.S should not be based on safety because if that was the case then things like tobacco, cigarettes as well as even buying a house and living on your own, etc. should be put off until the age of 21. The learning of being punished for your uncontrollable actions is more beneficial for it to happen at 18 than it is at 21. Yes, I am not going to persuade you and tell you that Alcohol does no harm because it does but so do all of the other drug substances available for people at the age of 18 which in my eyes doesn't make any sense. Alcohol in the United States of America should be legal at 18 years of age