Should the legal drinking age be lowered to eighteen? At age eighteen you have the right to vote, you can legally purchase cigarettes, you are eligible for the military draft, you are willing to die for this country, you can even serve on a jury, and you are entitled as an adult at age eighteen. Why can't someone at eighteen not drink alcohol? Who is to say that just because someone is twenty-one that means they are wise enough to drink alcohol in responsible conduct? There are several explanations why one should be able to drink alcohol at the age of eighteen. The legal minimum age for drinking alcohol was not always twenty-one; in recent decades it has fluctuated between twenty-one and eighteen. In the article "Underage Drinking and the Drinking Age" by Carla T. Main, voting age issues during the Vietnam War are discussed. Also, talk about how the change in the legal voting age is linked to the change in the minimum legal drinking age. During the Vietnam War, lowering the voting age to eighteen became an issue. Many felt that they should be trusted to vote if they were trusted to fight for their country. Along with this issue has also come the issue of lowering the legal minimum age for drinking alcohol. Americans began to realize that at eighteen, citizens were granted many rights, and these should include voting and drinking. At eighteen, rights include service in the United States Army, the ability to marry, and the ability to legally sign contracts on your own. After much attention, the voting age has been changed. In the article “The Drinking Game,” Marshall Poe discusses changing the voting age during the Vietnam War. “The necessary three-fs… half of the paper… similar to these, can significantly improve the prevalence of at-risk underage drinking on college campuses. To ensure that the lower drinking age alcohol consumption functions, we will need the help of parents, teachers and every role model we can. We need to teach the younger generations the disadvantages of drinking regularly, but we shouldn't ban it, but we shouldn't take it away either adult/adolescent how to deal with the “forbidden fruit”. take enough that it doesn't harm them or others. It's time to approach this situation differently, not to ban it and not to pretend that this isn't happening appropriately will help significantly. It's time to try to improve the quality of our life while still being able to enjoy what life has to offer.