Lives are saved when the drinking age is higher. Traffic fatalities are the number one killer of youth ages sixteen to twenty-four and alcohol is involved in half of those accidents. Alcohol is also involved in more than half of all youth suicides. Even though there are many deaths related to alcohol among youth today, it is less than in the 1970's. Traffic deaths involving youth have been reduced by 13% since 1975, when the drinking age was raised from eighteen to twenty-one. Changing the legal drinking age to twenty-one has been credited with saving more than 11,000 lives.

think that if teens are allowed to drink, the novelty of beer or wine will wear off and there will be less binge drinkers. With 10.6 million teens consuming alcohol within the last year, the legal alcohol drinking age must remain at twenty-one to preserve the health and welfare of America's youth.

Alcohol can be a "gateway drug"

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