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Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma, and South Dakota: The legal purchase age is 18 for 3.2% ABV beer, and 21 for beer stronger than 3.2% ABV, wine, and liquor. Minimum legal purchase age as of 1983 (one year before the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was passed):
21 or older, unrestricted under supervision of individual's parent or legal guardian or legal age spouse [114] 12% ABV cap on beer was removed on May 31, 2016. [115] 21% ABV cap on wine. Some counties have more restrictive off-premises hours.
In Paraguay, the legal drinking age and purchase age is 20 years. In Guyana, minors aged 16 or 17 may consume a glass of beer or wine in a restaurant provided they buy a meal. In North America the legal drinking age and legal purchase age varies from 18 to 21 years: In Mexico, the drinking age is 18 in all states.
In the United States, the national legal drinking age is 21 years old and has been so since 1984. However, according to information provided by the Alcohol Policy Information System — a project ...
In Taiwan, where the legal drinking age is 18, high schoolers who said they drank nonalcoholic beverages were more likely than those who didn’t to express an intention to drink alcohol. In ...
Legal drinking ages vary around the world, and many are lower than in the United States. Before you raise a glass or down a pint, be sure you know the laws abroad. Here are the laws in 21 popular ...
Since 1984, when the National Minimum Drinking Age Act made the minimum legal drinking age for every state in the nation 21, there has been a steady increase in the prevalence of alcohol use, heavy use, and frequent use among underage drinkers as the age increases. Across all ages, the highest rates of alcohol abuse occur among persons 19 years ...
In response to these findings, many states raised the minimum legal drinking age to 19 (and sometimes to 20 or 21). [6] In 1984, the National Minimum Legal Drinking Act, written by Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and influenced by Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), required all states to set their minimum purchasing age to 21. Any state that ...