So the conclusion is that every year 3-4 people die from binge drinking when the agelimit is 16. It is one person out of 1,250,000.
But the Boston University’s School of Public Health published a report that 1,400 died per year in the United States due to alcohol-intake. Considering that the population is about 309,000,000 it means that one person out of 221,000 will die if the agelimit is 21.
The conclusion the Danish Institute for finer Cuisine came to is that a lower agelimit on alcohol saves lives.
What is your opinion in that matter?
Oscar, at one point your sources base their argument on data collected from a single month in 2004. The is equivalent to me saying programs are safer because I compared the number of deaths during the month of April, 1999 when 12 kids died in a single public school versus none in programs.
You linked to an article which talked about drinking among 15 – 19 year olds and then compared it to deaths which occurred across the spectrum in the United States arguing that the death rate from alcohol would increase among young people if they were denied alcohol.
Much of the energy from this thinking comes from a blog you linked to which refers to MADD as an “American Christian movement which has imprisoned our youth”. MADD was started by an Arab woman and has nothing to do with religion or Christianity. It’s a bunch of mothers trying to put laws in place to protect our young people.
From what I have read:
"The Board’s figures also show that teenagers between the ages of 15 and 19 are admitted to emergency wards as a result of alcohol twice as often as the 20-29 age group, and much more than older groups.” Oscar, I am not arguing that raising or lowering the drinking age in your country would be effective but based on the studies done in your country this portion of the population seems to be particularly at risk and the people of your country should sit up and take notice of this information and not ignore it.
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