In Missouri signatures are being collected to put the question of lowering the drinking age on the ballot.
John McCardell, the former president of Middlebury College in Vermont, is leading a national effort to lower the drinking age to 18.
He won the event the day after turning 19, the legal drinking age in Ontario.
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As transport secretary in the early 1980s, Mrs Dole hit on the idea of linking federal highway grants to raising the legal drinking age to 21.
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Strathclyde Police said it carried out a number of "test purchases" in the area after complaints about problems linked to under-age drinking in the area.
Unemployed Mr McLernon said his drinking began at the age of 16 in a park near his home with friends.
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Anyone buying alcohol in Newquay must show a passport or driving licence to prove their age in a clampdown on under-age drinking in the resort.
Dr Nick Sheron, a liver specialist at Southampton University Hospitals Trust, believes the "easy accessibility of cheap alcohol" is one of the major factors fuelling under-age drinking.
MADD's emotion, coupled with the prospect of states losing their road money, mean that a lower drinking age remains as dim a prospect as a cold Bud in Utah.
However, supporters of the current age limit cite a 2006 study that found those who started drinking as teenagers were five times more likely to abuse alcohol than those who waited until they were 21.
Germany's traditional beer drinkers, in the 40-to-60 age bracket, are also becoming more health-conscious and drinking less alcohol, said Marc-Oliver Huhnholz of the German Brewers Association.
There were green picnic tables set out beneath the shade trees full with foliage, and on this sunny weekend afternoon there were waiters in braided white coats moving swiftly about, balancing trays laden with bottles and pitchers and plates, and men of every age gathered at each of the tables, smoking cigarettes and pipes and cigars and drinking deeply from tall beakers and earthenware mugs.
The greatest frequency of binge drinking is found among women aged 18-34 and high-school-age girls.
Yet 2m children under the age of five die every year in India alone, mostly thanks to poor nutrition or bad drinking water.
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