RJA #2b: Research Topic

Topic: The drinking age should be raised even further past the age of 21 to decrease the amount of deaths caused by alcohol effects.
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(indent) I chose this topic as my argument because I have not seen any benefits from consuming alcohol and believe that its consumption be eliminated as much as possible. Alcohol is a common factors of problems resulting in deaths; car accidents, cirrhosis, or overdose. Alcohol should be a substance furthest from the reach of people.
(indent) Alcohol inhibits self control over and individual which leads them into a downward spiral for example; people know that they shouldn't drink and drive on a normal basis, but when they are in a drunken stupor, they believe they can drive without causing accidents and proceeds on doing so. The long term affects of alcohol on the body are primarily cirrhosis (permanent liver damage) and death of brain tissue, both very vital organs to the body. There is always people that break the law, but that does not mean that there shouldn't be rules made for the population to follow.
(indent) What I don't know relating to my topic and alcohol is when the drinking age was set to 21 years of age, by whom it was set, and why was it set as so. I want to learn about prohibition and its attempt to remove alcohol from America and why it ultimately failed.