Study: Another reason to keep the drinking age at 21

By Meredith Melnick

"Young women who came of age in the late 1960s and '70s, when many states had lowered their legal drinking ages to under 21, remained at higher risk of suicide and homicide into adulthood, a new study finds."

"After Prohibition, most states had a drinking age of 21. But many lowered the legal age in '60s and '70s, when the voting age was simultaneously moved down and men as young as 18 were being drafted to serve in Vietnam, explained Richard A. Grucza, an epidemiologist at Washington University School of Medicine, in St. Louis, and an author of the study. ..."

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