Talk:National Minimum Drinking Age Act

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Contents 1 Citations needed 2 Binge drinking 3 Only applies to beverages? 4 Congressional voting record 5 This article is entirely POV

[edit] Citations needed

It would be nice to have a citation for the dubious-sounding stat about a mojority of teenagers supporting the drinking age.

I agree.ch 16:50, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Two of the listed references (including one which is provided by Potsdam University faculty) refer to this as the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984, not 1985. I have edited the article to reflect this. 'Net 02:59, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

That's kind of obvious, just ask anyone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.45.47.174 (talk) 23:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Binge drinking

It says that moderate drinking has been replaced with binge drinking, but most students don't binge drink. That's a false impression created by the attention binge drinkers receive on the news. I just took a course on alcohol and saw some statistics, but I don't know where to find them online. Either way, the statement about binge drinking sounds very POV to me.

It's also encouraged by the fact that those surveys routinely "define" binge drinking not as excessive or uncontrolled consumption of alcohol, but simply as consumption of five or more drinks on a single occasion. That is obviously a binge for some and not others, and depends on how and why they're consumed that way.

[edit] Only applies to beverages?

Does the act cover alcoholic solids, or only beverages? SteveSims (talk) 02:22, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Congressional voting record

If anybody has the voting record for this act then post it in the article, even if only as an external link. SteveSims (talk) 20:33, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] This article is entirely POV

In deleting some of the proponents' dubious claims, we seem to have left this article slanted entirely in the opposition's favor. This article needs a less negative intro, data about why the law was passed, and a section in support of the law to balance out the general negativity given off by this article. Feel free to remove the Template:NPOV if/when this article becomes a little less one-sided. —LinkTiger (talk) 05:43, 28 April 2008 (UTC)