Drinking Age Interview

This paper is based on an interview done with a Baylor student on the topic of the United States drinking age. In 1984, the United States passed the Drinking Age Act which declares that each state must make their drinking age twenty-one if they want to receive State Highway Funds. This is important because of the people under the age of twenty-one who drink. This happens mostly at parties in high school and in college. The interviewee believes that the drinking age should be reduced back to eighteen due to tobacco age limit, enlistment age limit, and less government regulation.
In this paper, I will be summarizing an interview I did with Mary Cade, a current Baylor Nursing student. I interviewed Miss. Cade in person on April 26, 2017. The topic of the interview was on the government enforcing a drinking age of twenty-one. I selected Mary Cade because she is one of my closest friends, but grew up in a very different background than I did. She was born and raised in Gainesville, Florida in a single parent home. In the interview, we began talking about how California residents must be twenty-one in order to purchase

Cade believes that the legal drinking age should be reduced to eighteen because of the age limit on tobacco products. She said, “I understand tobacco is not a good product for people to use, and I do not believe in using tobacco product but it is each person’s individual choice to smoke those cancer sticks.” By having the age limits to purchase and consume tobacco products at eighteen causes people to become lifelong smokers and that is not healthy for anyone, even those who do not smoke. She also said that “The only good thing that comes from the tobacco industry is the immense amount of stimulation brought into the economy.” The use of tobacco in the United States and countries worldwide greatly stimulates the American economy. Therefore, Mary Cade believes that if eighteen-year-olds are legally allowed to smoke then why can they not