Poll: Raising the drinking age

[sdMario]

It's not the legal age that is the problem, it's more a glamorisation of Alcohol generally, be it by media, parents, or peers. Yet personally, I think it's pretty much a nothing law, and most people seem to see it as such.

Of my year group, the majority of people have drunk on a regular basis from 15/16 years old, whether being bought alcohol by parents, older siblings, or by looking rather old..

 

[Vault101]

A while ago there was talk of raising the drinking age from 18 to 21 In Australia, to combat the issue we seem to have with binge drinking and violence at our clubs/pubs

I don't see how this is really going to help the problem, if young people want to drink they are going to drink regardless, the only difference is they are not doing it on licences premisis, I doubt a 21 age limit is going to stop a 15 17 or 18 year old from drinking

I think the problem lies in the culture, its just a common thing to go out and drink till your hammered you have ot change that If you want to solve the problem

But what do oyu think? is raising the gae a good idea? could it be more harmful? how would you tackle the problems with binge drinking?

Yes.

Every single person in my maths class have been out drinking... Every one.
Except me.
Ad the people in my class are 15 or 16, i found this shocking. when i enquired Why they would break the law; "Why not? Who cares!".

I was stunned.

I don't know where youre from, but the fact that its illigal means practically nothing over here, its socially acceptable, that part of the problem

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I think any country that lets you sign up for the military before you can drink needs to re-assess it's laws.

 

[dex-dex]

In Ontario the drinking age is nineteen. In Quebec the drinking age is eightteen.
when my friends turned eighteen we just went to Quebec for a weekend and get smashed.

people who can get their hands on it will use it. It is silly in my opinion.

 

[Computer-Noob]

Teenagers in their angst drink it when they are underage. Adults who mature also drink it. Depending on the alcohol (Ranging from beer to wine, in this case) it could separate class from filth.

Personally I think that the higher the drinking age, the further the separation between childhood and maturity will be. You could be 21 and have never drank in the US before, by abiding to the rules. I would imagine that the average teen would call such a person unhealthily sheltered.

Obviously alcoholism is a problem in certain senses, but changing the drinking age probably isnt the best step. Maybe if the current drinking age was more heavily enforced, for example, it is illegal to buy OR drink below the age?

 

[icame]

I believe that if the government gives you the rights of adulthood at 18 they should give you the right to drink also. But in the end it doesn't matter anyway, people will still drink it anyways.