The drinking age.......?
401530
I feel that the whole drinking age thing is overrated. When I turned 21, I didn't even drink for about 3 months! Just didn't feel like it. And to answer your other question, alcohol is alcohol.
364815
Pretty much it's 21 through out this nation and I would keep it the same or raise it to 23.  \n\nI see these 19 - 21 year olds drinking and being stupid.  Just last week 3 19 year old teenagers where drinking and driving.  Guess what... they crashed into a tree and all three are now gone.  \n\nIt's stupid stuff.  I feel bad for these parents who lost their kids.\n\n\nBut I believe no matter what the drinking age is, kids will be kids and experiment with alcohol, smoking and drugs.  They are no different than we were kids.  We did the same crap, but somehow survived it.  \n\n\nLooking back at it now, I can see how foolish and stupid I was with drinking, smoking and drugs.  Thank God I came to realize what I was doing was not good for me and straighten my butt out very quickly.
212557
In the UK the legal age is 16......
216779
Ummm....The USA is probabaly the only one that really has one, or actually enforeces it. So a better question would have been, "What coutries do have an age limit on drinking?"
557274
The most recent detailed statistics I could find are from 2004.\n\nTable 5.1 in the following document gives a breakdown of alcohol use for different age ranges.\n\nHope it is of use.
1109545
no drinking age and easy access to alcohol!!!
1103989
drunk-15\nhigh- 15\nsex- 15
1131642
When I was 18 - it was a legal drinking age at that time.  I truly don't understand it either.  I believe if we can send someone off to war at 18, we can surely allow them to have a drink.  That's just my opinion.
113699
Not sure where you are from ... but the drinking laws in Michigan are quite strict... the problem isn't with enough laws it's with the lack of ability to enforce them.
672996
They tell the kids not to drink and then they do it?  Go out with your buddies any other night but try to convince them not to go drunk to the prom.  I am 17, and like most 17 year-olds I know what a buzzed person and a drunk person looks like.  Even if they don't get fired, kids will lose respect for them if they do something stupid and obviously drunken.
50719
You can fight for your country (volunteer) at age 18 because that is the age of majority when a person is deemed old enough to sign binding contracts (to buy a car or join the Army, etc.).\n\nYou can not drink (and drive) until you are 21 for several reasons.  If drinking was legal at say 18, it would be freely available to friends (in high school!) below 18, and lead to far more drinking/driving accidents.  It often does anyway among those who ignore the law.  Driving for many aged 18 or less is a new skill and alcohol can wipe out a new skill much easier than a well-ingrained skill, clouding judgement and coordination, leading to serious injury and death for friends and perfect strangers who merely got in the way.  The record speaks for itself.\n\nIn a perfect world, no one would abuse alcohol and there would be no war.  Those who drink beer illegally are also less apt to fight for their country - because they do not value the rule of law.\n\nFor those who survive to age 21, there will be plenty of time to drink beer and serve their country, as they choose.
1072614
At quick look, Nepal, Ukraine, parts of India\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age
410819
I think the big problem is drinking and driving, we need to one raise the driving age to 18 as well.  I think the effect wouldn't be that noticible because everyone over 18 already drinks, they would just get less under age drinking citations.  Every other country except Canada that I can think of allows drinking at 18, or in many tird worlds there is no drinking age.  If people are responsible and we use Europe as a guideline it can be something that isn't a big deal.
796723
Personally I would not give a child under 12 alcohol.  \nOne serving of spirit could well do a considerable amount of damage to a 18 month old, but a 10 years old would propbably just be drunk and suffer no major ill effects.  That is as a one off.  Ant child given alcohol regularly would become alcoholic and suffer the same alcohol related illnesses as an alcoholic adult...;
1015221
The legal age for drinking in Brazil is 18.  The website below lists MOST countries and their drinking ages!
451365
Not sure I understand your question. Alcohol and cigarettes are legal but use of them under a certain age is not.
49401
Here in Canada the drinking age is 19, I think that's fair. I think 21 is a bit high. Smoking should be 18...so should the legal age of consent, btw.