Increase the legal drinking age

You should know, as an obviously experienced man of the world, that not all young people act like that. In fact, a tiny, tiny minority do so, and don't forget that most violent assaults are committed by the 25-35s, hardly what I would call 'youths'. It's simply that newspapers and people generally don't mention stories about a 35 year old getting drunk and assaulting an older person, as it has no 'shock factor'. Get your facts straight and perhaps even smile at some young people now and again - two incidents (horrific though they may be) are hardly justification for demonising a whole generation. I am 19 now, and have multiple groups of large friends who I know well, from all walks of life, quite literally, and none of them have ever assaulted anyone. So, please open your mind and stop alienating my generation - after all we're going to be the ones nursing your in your old age, paying for your NHS care and possibly even being your care staff. We're good people on the whole, people need to open their minds to that.

Yes, increase the drinking age and parents teach your children that nothing good comes from alcohol. It rots your liver, it gives you bags under your eyes, you say and do things you regret, and if you conceive a child and you're both drunk, odds are the child could have "fetal alcohol syndrome" and it makes you poor by taking all your hard-earned money. Booze should be bypassed. It is NOT a health-giver and is a complete WASTE OF TIME and LIFE.

Increasing the legal drinking age will not solve a thing. People will still drink if they want to drink. What can the police do about it? Nothing, nothing at all.

There are violent incidents happening in the UK every single day. Not all these are down to being alcohol related.

Some teenagers may not handle there drink well, but there are alot that do im 18 and me and my friends like going out for a drink and never get into fights besides I no people who are 26 and over and go out for a drink and get into fights it isn't only teens and raising the age to 21 wouldnt solve anything it would just make things even worse and its not fair on the teens who drink without gettings into fights. its 18 and should stay that way!

I agree that the age should be increased - teenagers do not realise the impact alcohol has on their health and brain - when they get older & have health problems they will regret drinking from a young age. It is up to parents & society to protect the next generation.

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Raising the Age will make the problem worse, it is also immoral how can you say that someone is a legal adult at 18 yet cant drink Alcohol untill they are 21 it would be Stupid.
The only Country that tells Adults they cannot Drink is the Neo-Prohibitionist USA and we Brits do not want to go down that hypocritical road.

The Drinking Age in the United Kingdom is 18 and should stay 18.

raising the age is going to make the problem worse, as when minors do manage to get hold of alcohol they will want to binge, make the most of it. If we allow young people to drink, then they won't feel they have to get drunk every time because they don't know when they're next going to be able to drink

Also History has shown very plainly and clearly that "prohibition"of diverse varietys only makes
the original problem worse.

I have to strongly disagree with raising the Legal drinking age from 18 to 21.It takes away from 18,19 and 20 year olds a Basic human right to enjoy a pint or two.Alcoholism is Largely determined by genes.Not the age when alcohol was first taken.

If you raise the drinking age to 21, the currant 18 year olds won't stop drinking, just like the 13-17 year olds find a way to get large amounts of alcohol on a regular basis, all raising the age would do is add 3 more years of people drinking on the streets, which is more violent than pub drinking.

Not to mention the amount of tax the government makes on alcohol