Q07048

Drinking it is everywhere, TV, community, radio. People believe New Zealand youth or teenagers drink too much. Some believe adults drink too much, no matter what way we look at it, New Zealand is drinking too much. The legal drinking age of 18 could be changed, but would it really change or improve anything. Changing the drinking age will not educate young students on the effects of drinking, make people drink reasonable or give a sufficient result in youth drinking. It’s not who your what we are drinking its why and how.

It is proven that the human brain remembers better when introduced to something seven times. If a ten year old child is introduced to drinking as a way of forgetting the stress of life or drinking to get drunk later on in life they begin to do the same. 80 % of 12-24 year olds drink large amounts of alcohol more then another group. 12-24 year olds also have no true understanding of the effects drinking has on your body, family, and your bank account. My believe is students should be given a better understand and education on the effects of drinking. With more understanding we can produce better judgmental decisions.

Death’s involving alcohol usually begin with one person making a bad choice an example of this is, a 27 year old female who decided to drive after an alcohol level was five times over the limit to drive. Most New Zealand people respect and understand when enough is enough. We begin to drink responsible, deaths involving alcohol will drop. Anything can happen when a community is bound together and wanting change. Responsible drinking is a team game.

Nothing is worse than a youth dyeing due to a car crash or over intoxication from drinking. Changing the age will not stop underage youths from getting and abusing alcoholic drinks. If we stop youths obtaining drinks to existent we can control what and how much they are drinking. New Zealand should bane the sale of RTD’s and drinks with a present of 8% to person’s under 25. Bar’s and clubs should introduced a drink’s card witch allows a bar tender or bouncer to stop one person getting over intoxicated. Little things can improve and enhance our drinking culture.

Changing the drinking age in New Zealand will not improve or promote reasonable drinking, give youth students the shock value they need to understand the effect’s of alcohol or control what and how much we drink. New rules do need to be in place. Rules that control how we drink not who gets drink. Alcohol needs to be seen as a drug not a dollar sign.