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Many states are fighting to lower the drinking age to 18. State officials contend that if you are old enough to fight in a war you are old enough to drink. Versions of the lower drinking age bill vary from state to state, some only including military personnel, some including all citizens aged 18 and up.

Many states are fighting to lower the drinking age to 18. State officials contend that if you are old enough to fight in a war you are old enough to drink. Versions of the lower drinking age bill vary from state to state, some only including military personnel, some including all citizens aged 18 and up.

Information about contaminants of drinking water in the form of a table. Gives standards, regulations (also some which are in development) and evaluations of drinking water. Shows how different types of drinking water gets tested.

Banning sugary drinks would increase people's desire to drink more sugary drinks. Even though New York put a ban on certain drinks and their sizes, people are consuming more.

In NYC, they strove to pass a ban on selling sodas that were larger than 16 ounces. Sodas were a major revenue for restaurants.

This website talks about the drinking ages in different countries when you're traveling. This also presents how most college presidents are wanting to sign to lower drinking ages to 18. 

Ask most any 16 year old and up teen and you will find out that the vast majority of them have drank. There is extreme health consequences for any age drinking but in particular underage drinking.

The author Buddy T, is against lowering the drinking age, and he provides some counter arguments for my paper. He argues that if we lowered the drinking age, there would be more car incidents. 

Raising the drinking age to 21 hasn't reduced drinking it gave under age people the urge to drink a lot more then they can consume. When people are viewed as an adult in America by the age of 18 years old, and they can limited to what they can consume, it makes people want to act out.

This article points out that there we should just get rid of the drinking age completely. However, it also makes some good points of why we should lower the drinking age if we dont get rid of it.

I definitely don't agree with this article. Its one thing to smoke cannabis. But drinking takes your body to a completely un-controllable state. And the younger you are the more naïve you become with making smart choices.

The personal freedom of consumption. This site illustrates the debate on lowering the drinking age and giving young adults more freedom to choose for themselves.

The personal freedom of consumption. This site illustrates the debate on lowering the drinking age and giving young adults more freedom to choose for themselves.

Making the right decision some time means safe life's. Drinking and driving is one of the big mistakes that people make during their life's.

Drinking and driving is not only wrong, but its completely selfish. You are not only putting your life in danger, but you are also putting others in danger. There are many different routes you can take rather than just getting into your car intoxicated.

Ugh, I hate that no matter how many times you can say to someone "please call me and ill pick you up" and they still choose to drive themselves home because they do not want to "bother" you. This is such a big issue in our society that everyone needs to learn to stop doing. I feel that Uber is helping in some way lately though!

This article explores why the drinking age is 21. It also references other countries and some of the current laws in those countries and why the current drinking age should not be lowered.

This article is about the Mayor of New York banning soda. New York City Mayor Bloomberg struck what he claims is another blow for the cause of public health yesterday by announcing a ban on the sale of all sugared drinks in containers that measure larger than 16 ounce servings. Because soft drinks are widely believed to be part of the obesity epidemic, he believes it is his duty to try and stop the citizens of Gotham from harming themselves.

Article about how New York mayor wanted to ban large sodas. Analyzes how this effects personal freedom from both sides.

Proving negative reasoning as to why raising the drinking in America did not help as expected. It rather prompted people to act out and drink a lot because alcohol is not to their disposal.

The article talks about New York City's new ruling that puts a limit on the size drinks filled with sugar. The ruling was passed in hopes that it would help lower the obesity rate.

Current drinking age is 21 but, many colleges are debating on lowering the age to 18 for they think it would help with on campus binge drinking. Even though ASU is staying out of the debate many other college principles are thinking of this in a positive light.

Find out whether people think that the U.S. drinking age should be lowered to 18, instead of being set at 21.

Are artificial sweeteners truly better for you or are they actually worse then just drinking sugar. Many believe using artificial sweeteners to sweeten drinks and food can be a great way to help reduce calories and maintain a healthy lifestyle. While others believe it is far worse for you then just having sugar or high fructose corn syrup.

Denmark after one year removed the fat tax and would be phasing out the soft drink tax in one year. The tax was damaging to local economy and didn't deliver any concrete benefits. Again one single food or bev can be held responsible. between 1999-2011 soda decreased by 32% and fat rates still rose.

A heavily debated topic is in regard to the use of sugar substitutes such as aspartame and sucralose. Common brands are Splenda, NutraSweet, and etc. Research has shown that these "healthy, weight loss" sugar-free substitutes are unsafe and are causing more harm then good. This article specifically talks about how children's drinks are being targeted, and currently contain more of these sweeteners, such as aspartame, and increased by 200% during the study period. This is not only affecting children, as there has been a 54% increase of artificial sweeteners in adult foods and beverages as well.

Sugary drinks has been linked to 180,000 deaths world wide. Drinks such as soda has been linked to major heart diseases and obesity.