When you turn 18, you are now legalized as an adult. There are many perks to turning eighteen such as: having the responsibility and rights as an adult to vote for the president of the United States, smoke cigarettes, serve on juries, be prosecuted as adults instead of a juvenile, and join the military- which by the way risks someone's life. But, there is one thing that you cannot …show more content…
In fact, " the rate of traffic accidents and fatalities in the 1980s decreased less than that of European countries whose legal drinking ages are lower than 21." (Choose Responsibility, "FAQs," chooseresponsibility.org (accessed Mar. 28, 2012)). This basically means that even though the European countries have a lower drunk driving accident rate than we do, they have less wrecks than us. On top of that, Traffic accidents and fatalities more common to legal drinkers, regardless of what the MLDA says about the consumption of