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Speech on Alcohol

Alcohol, a liquid often enjoyed in social settings, has a rich history and diverse impacts on society. You may know it from parties, dinners, or even from the movies.

Yet, it’s not all about fun. Alcohol can affect your health and behavior. It’s important to understand these effects to make informed choices.

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Ladies and Gentlemen,

Let’s talk about alcohol today. It’s something you see in many places – parties, restaurants, and sometimes, even at home. But what is it exactly? Simply put, alcohol is a drink that can change how you think, feel, and act.

Now, some people believe that drinking alcohol makes them happy or helps them relax. It’s true, alcohol can make you feel this way at first. But, it’s important to remember that these feelings don’t last. Over time, drinking too much alcohol can make you feel sad, tired, and even sick.

It’s also essential to understand that alcohol can harm your body. Think about your liver, the organ that cleans your blood. Alcohol can damage your liver and make it hard for it to work properly. It can also hurt your heart and brain, leading to serious health problems.

Let’s not forget, alcohol can change the way you behave. You might do things you wouldn’t normally do, like argue with friends or make bad decisions. This is because alcohol affects your brain, making it hard for you to think clearly.

Lastly, let’s think about the young people in our lives. We must teach them about the effects of alcohol. We should show them that it’s possible to have fun and enjoy life without drinking.

In conclusion, alcohol is not as harmless as it seems. It’s important to understand its effects and make smart choices. Let’s protect our health, our relationships, and our future by being mindful of our alcohol consumption. Thank you.

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2-minute Speech on Alcohol

Let’s talk about alcohol. It’s something many of us know about and some of us might have even tasted it. It’s found in drinks like beer, wine, and whiskey. Many people enjoy it at parties, during holidays, or at the end of a long day. But it’s important to understand what alcohol is and how it affects us.

Alcohol is a type of drug. It changes the way our brains work. It can make us feel happy, relaxed, and more confident. But it can also make us feel dizzy, confused, and even sick. Too much alcohol can make it hard for us to think clearly, walk straight, or even remember what happened.

It’s also important to know that not everyone can drink alcohol. It’s illegal for anyone under 21 years old in many countries. This is because alcohol can be very harmful to young people. Their brains are still growing and alcohol can stop them from developing properly.

Alcohol can also be addictive. This means that some people start to need it to feel normal. They might drink more and more, and find it hard to stop. This is called alcoholism. It can lead to serious health problems, like liver disease and heart problems. It can also cause problems in relationships and at work.

But it’s not all bad news. If we drink alcohol in a safe and responsible way, it can be part of a healthy lifestyle. This means not drinking too much, and not drinking too often. It means not drinking if we’re pregnant, or if we’re planning to drive. And it means knowing when to stop.

So, ladies and gentlemen, the next time you reach for a glass of beer or wine, remember what you’ve learned today. Remember that alcohol can be fun, but it can also be dangerous. Remember to drink responsibly, and to respect the laws about who can and can’t drink. And remember, it’s okay to say no to alcohol. It’s your body, your choice.

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10 Arguments For And Against Drinking Alcohol

Written by Mark Rausch

May 21, 2014

This isn’t just for those who toil with the questions: am I an overdrinker? A borderline alcoholic? Can I have fun without three glasses of beer? Is the liquor store closed this morning? Nope, it’s also a validation for those who have taken what some might describe as the high road: full sobriety. Whatever floats your boat, here are 10 arguments for and against drinking alcohol.

Sources: listverse.com, time.com, bbc.com, medicinenet.com, drinkinmoderation.org

AGAINST: You Never Really Sleep

Dr. Sleep will tell you that boozing and snoozing are, surprisingly, not mutually exclusive. Now passing out cold on the couch after your Saturday wet brunch is one thing, but actually getting a restful, rejuvenating night’s sleep is another. Alcohol before sleep increases slow-wave sleep, which helps relax your muscles and bones during the first part of your sleep. However, you never fully reach REM with alcohol coursing through your system. This can lead to increased bouts of insomnia, waking up in the middle of the night, or waking up groggier.

FOR: A Diverse Palette

You don’t need to tour the vineyards of Burgundy to get a taste for delectable international vintages. There’s likely a bottle selection from multiple countries down the block from you. While many people lack the time, finances, or desire to rack up their own wine cellar, there’s plenty of reasonably priced reds, whites and pinks that can be paired with any modest dish for taste enhancement. Washing down a filet with a nice pinot noir…heaven can wait.

AGAINST: Money Go Bye-Bye

It must be nice to be one of those smarties who, when the split bill comes, pays 30-percent less than their friends. Why? They had the seltzer-and-lemon for a dollar, not the two bottles of wine or the three gin cocktails. Yes, it’s quite a formidable task you may avoid every month, but check your credit card’s itemized bill next time and see how much you spent on dining out…or at the bars….or at the liquor store. It might shock you sober!

FOR: Those Arguments About Good Health

For every 10 medical experts saying two glasses of red will make you live until cars fly, there’s five who’ll tell you to pray for the future of your liver after three sips. Federal dietary guidelines say one or two drinks every night (provided you don’t have medical problems) is just fine — perhaps even finer than not partaking. Drink in Moderation has the 10-4 on that. Bottoms up!

AGAINST: The Freshman 15…

…ain’t just in your first year of college. You might always feel like an underclasswoman or man if the pounds start getting packed on, no matter the age. Alcohol intake is associated with carbs and calories — it’s just common knowledge by now. By no means are we pushing for a certain body type. If it becomes you, then eat, drink, and be merry….but watch out for your health, please!

FOR: Endless Dancing (Never Discouraged!)

“Trust me, you’re an excellent dancer.”  –Vodka

AGAINST: Your Precious Moments

My health class teacher in junior high school said every drink of alcohol is like banging your head into a wall 10 times. OK, if that were the case, we’d all be staring into space and drooling. Argument persists about how many billion brain cells are massacred with each beer. It’s quite true that excessive libations can lead to black patches in your evening. That can be dangerous, people! Don’t let the once-in-a-lifetime wedding night or graduation party slip your mind. A few drinks in, and you and your friends are pretty hilarious. Keep those tipsy witticisms within memory, and drink a little less!

FOR: The Artisanal Movements

If your poison of choice is commercial brands, you’re better off drinking motor oil or dirty water. If you’ve stumbled upon the pleasures of wine country, or craft beer revolutions, then we urge for continued partaking! The East and West Coast cities in particular have caught on to independent brewers and wineries, promoting and encouraging the particular art forms of the beverage master over the mass production of corporate assembly-line choices. From the basement brewer to the tap to the bodega, the movement is rising. Educate yourself while treating yourself on how sacred and diverse drinking can be!

AGAINST: The Real Deal on Health Risks

Most people can get behind one to two glasses of wine or beer a day, or a nice glass of scotch or whiskey, but going beyond this is where the risks kick in. A controversial 2010 study published in The Lancet said alcohol was the most harmful drug on the planet when considering social or personal ramifications, surpassing drugs like heroin, crack, or cocaine by a mile. As our humanoid systems simply cannot counteract the toxicity of alcohol, it alters our DNA, increasing the risk of cancerous mutations. Damage to a fetus can occur after just one night of binge drinking. The average age for an individual with liver disease is 40. We won’t even go into the history of tragic drunk driving accidents. Final word: getting wasted is not good for you.

FOR: “In Vino Veritas”

That’s Latin for: “In wine, [there is] truth.” This does not just regard telling your best friend that you’ve been in love with his aunt for years after three beers; it’s also a hat tip to the great immortal artists, writers, and thinkers. Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Faulkner, Hunter Thompson, Jackson Pollock, Orson Welles, Dean Martin, Edgar Allen Poe, Winston Churchill, Alexander the Great…this is NOT a validation of alcohol abuse, but a celebration of art produced by brilliant, sometimes tortured minds that were often addled by alcohol. Can a few glasses of wine loosen the tongue and bring out the truth? Yes, and talking about love isn’t such a bad thing.

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'Everything is better without alcohol, and I really do mean everything': readers on drinking

After Gay Alcorn wrote about giving up alcohol for a month readers responded with their own tales of struggle, indulgence and enjoyment

This week Gay Alcorn wrote about giving up alcohol for a month and how she was not prepared for the impact it had . She wrote:

I drank to pretend that my life was more interesting than it was, to escape from everyday problems, and because I enjoyed it. Or maybe that’s self-justifying crap. Maybe it’s just that alcohol is an addictive substance like all of those illicit drugs we demonise and, over the years, I had become addicted.

The piece had an extraordinary response with hundreds of thousands of people reading. Below is an edited selection of readers’ comments:

‘The line between an alcoholic and normal drinker is blurred’

Good for you. As someone who did have a drink problem, I personally think the line between an alcoholic and a normal drinker is blurred. Millions of these supposed normal drinkers are addicted to alcohol – a foul-tasting drug that makes you behave badly and feel wretched. Don’t drink again and don’t feel like you’re giving anything up: you’re not.

‘The decision proved quite easy’

When I came to work in the Middle East six years ago, I took a conscious decision that living in a country where alcohol was illegal and trying to hold down a pretty challenging job would mean my avoiding booze completely. Once taken, the decision proved quite easy – it was as simple as changing gears. I was quite surprised, however, to find that the chief effect was not physical as much as it was mental – the depression and violent outbursts which had haunted me for decades gradually ebbed away. It took a while to realise that alcohol had been the equivalent of the Old Man of the Sea for most of my adult life .

‘I don’t need alcohol to unwind’

Best wishes, Gay. I stopped drinking two and a half years ago and with the benefit of distance, I can now say these things are true: 1. Alcohol made me feel good only in that it satisfied the craving for alcohol. Now the craving is gone (give it three months) I don’t need alcohol to unwind. In fact, I’m much less wound. 2. Everything is better without alcohol, and I really do mean everything.

By the way, the most I drank in a session was three drinks. Mainly it was one or two. And I drank four to five times a week. So pretty normal by most standards. And I was addicted. I can see that now.

‘I didn’t have an addiction, just a habit’

Like the writer, my one or two glasses of wine with the evening meal crept up to three or four and some days I drank half a bottle or even whole bottle of wine. For about a year I had a background worry that I was addicted. Then I decided I needed to lose weight, and to be successful this time, I would stop drinking alcohol completely. So one day I just stopped. And for three months drank no alcohol apart from one night at a dinner party. Pleased to discover it was easy, I felt a lot better, and I was more productive and positive. And I was also happy to discover that I did not have an addiction, it had just been a habit. I just had a three week holiday where I had one or two beers most days. Now I am back at work and alcohol-free again. Highly recommend it. May not be quite so easy if you do have an addiction issue, which I did not seem to have.

‘I just drank too much’

I am not joking, I never had a drink problem, I just drank too much. I drink all the time, now it is alcohol free beer. I never keep count. What jolted me into my senses was the day I drank four bottles of red and was still functional. I realised how much I was drinking and just gave up. I have never missed it. I had one drink out of curiosity, it was a non event. Hence I am not sure the addictive aspect is universal, I was definitely addicted to smoking.

‘I drank every night’

Gave up proper drinking two years ago. I had slowly developed a bad habit of drinking every night, sometimes half a bottle, sometimes a whole bottle. I thought feeling vaguely shit until lunchtime was normal. The first thing I noticed a few weeks in is how happy I felt all the time. Just content and relaxed. I realised this was my old normal, it was like going back to being a child. It’s changed my life immeasurably for the better, I’ve gotten right into exercise and my fitness levels are fantastic for my age. I found after about eight months I can have the occasional drink at weddings etc with no problem, it doesn’t trigger me wanting to continue. I know this is not the case for everyone.

‘I can’t do it’

I have been trying to stop bingeing on booze for 30 years. Can’t do it. I stay sober for a month – no worries – feel great. Then for any reason or no reason I get totally tanked for three days until I’m so ill sometimes I end up in hospital. At 14 I started on Muscat Marsala and Milk. euw! I could easily blend in to Russia because vodka is awesome. My guilt hits me when I play guitar and sing in Church. I am a hypocrite.

‘I have a very solitary life’

I’m a rural Irish single person who hasn’t had a drink for about fifteen years, and I must admit that it’s led to me having a very solitary life, but I’m almost never in trouble, and I used to always be. Well worth it.

‘I’ve replaced alcohol with super fizzy water’

A drink, even just one drink, gave me a burst of instant ambition, followed by a rather anticlimactic 9pm procrastination slump once the kids were in bed, consisting of watching dumb YouTube clips about how evil Trump is, or some dissatisfying Netflix crap, until I couldn’t keep my eyes open and crawled into bed at 12.30. Now I understand that what I craved was actually the mouth feel, more than the alcohol. I’ve replaced alcohol with super fizzy water and everything is better. In fact since then I’ve not only been offered an amazing new job but I’ve also learned the first couple of pages of Brahms’ Intermezzo opus 118 number 2 in A major (which you should all go and listen to Glenn Gould playing on YouTube because it is life alteringly beautiful).

‘Booze-free was joyless’

I used to have a booze-free month every year. I stopped doing it because I had to accept that those months were invariably the most joyless, miserable, depressing, empty months of the year. I am not joking, but I realise this experience does not sit well with this newspaper’s tireless and tedious crusade against alcohol.

‘I want every inch of my life’

I’ve avoided alcohol all my life. Meaning, I might have one glass of wine, or half a pint of beer, two or three times a year, in a particular situation. But that’s it. The reason? I’m mean on giving away bits of my life, my energy, my alertness, my “being present”, as this writer puts it, being fully aware.

The way she describes here hangovers – to me, that reads like feeling a bit ill. Feeling a bit ill every day . Feeling a bit low, a bit slow, a bit headachy, a bit foggy. Every bloody day . Like feeling you’re about to come down with a cold every day.

To me, it’s like giving up bits of your life, your consciousness, your aliveness, your alertness. If I didn’t feel I had an interesting life, with things to do, then I suppose it would matter less if I wasted some of it semi-aware, through drink. But I do have an interesting life, in all sorts of ways, so many things in which to take interest and pleasure. Were I to be drunk, or even tipsy, or even hungover, I could absolutely not be fully engaged in the moment, take real pleasure, be absorbed, experience things properly. I need all my faculties, all my senses, all my emotional alertness, to really experience being alive.

Well, that’s me, whether that sounds wanky or not. I want every second. I want every inch of my life, all that I can have, fully known, fully experienced, none of it chucked away.

‘I’ve overdone grog for adventure’

That middle class drinking wine at home every night is completely pointless and utterly dull.

I’ve overdone the grog for the most part but it’s been largely the adventure of frothies in pubs, meeting people, women, the odd argument. But it served a purpose, I couldn’t ever imagine just quaffing wine at home as some daily ritual.

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Why the drinking age should be lowered: an opinion based upon research.

Engs, Ruth C. (1997, 2014). “Why the drinking age should be lowered: An opinion based upon research. Indiana University: Bloomington, IN. Adapted from: IUScholarWorks Repository:  http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17594

The legal drinking age should be lowered to about 18 or 19 and young adults allowed to drink in controlled environments such as restaurants, taverns, pubs and official school and university functions. In these situations responsible drinking could be taught through role modeling and educational programs. Mature and sensible drinking behavior would be expected. This opinion is based upon research that I have been involved in for over thirty years concerning college age youth and the history of drinking in the United States and other cultures.

Although the legal purchase age is 21 years of age, a majority of college students under this age consume alcohol but in an irresponsible manner. This is because drinking by these youth is seen as an enticing "forbidden fruit," a "badge of rebellion against authority" and a symbol of "adulthood." As a nation we have tried prohibition legislation twice in the past for controlling irresponsible drinking problems. This was during National Prohibition in the 1920s and state prohibition during the 1850s. These laws were finally repealed because they were unenforceable and because the backlash towards them caused other social problems. Today we are repeating history and making the same mistakes that occurred in the past. Prohibition did not work then and prohibition for young people under the age of 21 is not working now.

The flaunting of the current laws is readily seen among university students. Those under the age of 21 are more likely to be heavy -- sometimes called "binge" -- drinkers (consuming over 5 drinks at least once a week). For example, 22% of all students under 21 compared to 18% over 21 years of age are heavy drinkers. Among drinkers only, 32% of under-age compared to 24% of legal age are heavy drinkers.

Research from the early 1980s until the present has shown a continuous decrease, and then leveling off, in drinking and driving related variables which has parallel the nation's, and also university students, decrease in per capita consumption. However, these declines started in 1980 before the national 1987 law which mandated states to have 21 year old alcohol purchase laws.

The decrease in drinking and driving problems are the result of many factors and not just the rise in purchase age or the decreased per capita consumption. These include: education concerning drunk driving, designated driver programs, increased seat belt and air bag usage, safer automobiles, lower speed limits, free taxi services from drinking establishments, etc.

While there has been a decrease in per capita consumption and motor vehicle crashes, unfortunately, during this same time period there was an INCREASE in other problems related to heavy and irresponsible drinking among college age youth. Most of these reported behaviors showed little change until AFTER the 21 year old law in 1987. For example from 1982 until 1987 about 46% of students reported "vomiting after drinking." This jumped to over 50% after the law change. Significant increase were also found for other variables: "cutting class after drinking" jumped from 9% to almost 12%; "missing class because of hangover" went from 26% to 28%; "getting lower grade because of drinking" rose from 5% to 7%; and "been in a fight after drinking" increased from 12% to 17%. All of these behaviors are indices of irresponsible drinking. This increase in abusive drinking behavior is due to "underground drinking" outside of adult supervision in student rooms, houses, and apartments where same age individuals congregate. The irresponsible behavior is exhibited because of lack of knowledge of responsible drinking behaviors, reactance motivation (rebellion against the law), or student sub-culture norms.

Beginning in the first decade of the 21st century, distilled spirits [hard liquor] began to be the beverage of choice rather than beer among collegians. Previously beer had been the beverage of choice among students. A 2013 study of nursing students, for example, revealed that they consumed an average of 4.3 shots of liquor compared to 2.6 glasses of beer on a weekly basis.

This change in beverage choice along with irresponsible drinking patterns among young collegians has led to increased incidences of alcohol toxicity - in some cases leading to death from alcohol poisoning. However, the percent of students who consume alcohol or are heavy or binge drinkers has been relatively stable for the past 30 years.

Based upon the fact that our current prohibition laws are not working, the need for alternative approaches from the experience of other, and more ancient cultures, who do not have these problems need to be tried. Groups such as Italians, Greeks, Chinese and Jews, who have few drinking related problems, tend to share some common characteristics. Alcohol is neither seen as a poison or a magic potent, there is little or no social pressure to drink, irresponsible behavior is never tolerated, young people learn at home from their parents and from other adults how to handle alcohol in a responsible manner, there is societal consensus on what constitutes responsible drinking. Because the 21 year old drinking age law is not working, and is counterproductive, it behooves us as a nation to change our current prohibition law and to teach responsible drinking techniques for those who chose to consume alcoholic beverages.

Research articles that support this opinion are found in the Indiana University Repository at: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/17133/browse?type=title

and https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/17130/browse?type=title

Some material here also used in: Engs, Ruth C. "Should the drinking age be lowered to 18 or 19." In Karen Scrivo, "Drinking on Campus," CQ Researcher 8 (March 20,1998):257.

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When Mass General transplant hepatologist Wei Zhang says he wants his colleagues to think before they speak, he has the tragedy of a recent patient in mind.

Admitted to intensive care for advanced alcohol-associated liver disease, the 36-year-old woman hid the truth when asked about her drinking. “She was like, ‘No, I quit over a year ago, I didn’t drink at all,’” said Zhang, also director of the hospital’s Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease Clinic. “But we have tools that can detect the use of alcohol in the past three, four weeks.”

The patient, who had been traumatized by years of physical abuse, was denied a liver transplant, in part because she withheld information about her alcohol use. Her death days later was “a consequence of stigma,” Zhang said. Patients too often “feel they’re being judged and may fear that their condition is seen as a result of personal failing rather than a medical issue that needs treatment.” 

Amid increases in high-risk drinking and alcohol-associated liver disease across the country , he hopes  that new research can help complete the years-long work of erasing that stigma, saving lives in the process. 

For decades, medical terminology has labeled liver disease and other alcohol-related conditions as “alcoholic”: alcoholic liver disease, alcoholic hepatitis, alcoholic cirrhosis, alcoholic pancreatitis. Meanwhile, clinicians and administrators have described patients as addicts and alcoholics. 

More recently, specialists and advocates have sought with some success to revise how we talk about substance use and those struggling to overcome it, not just to reduce stigma but also to combat bias among medical professionals. According to the  National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism , the term “alcohol use disorder” is now preferable to “alcohol abuse,” “alcohol dependence,” and “alcoholism.”

“Emphasizing non-stigmatizing language is crucial not only for fostering honesty but also for supporting the overall treatment process and patient outcomes,” Zhang said. 

The new study is a step toward that goal. Inspired by his patients, Zhang set out to observe whether the terminology used by institutions that treat alcohol-associated liver disease reflects or rejects stigma. He and his team reviewed messages on more than 100 accredited liver transplant center websites, along with language used by addiction psychiatry sites. They found that almost nine of 10 transplant center websites use stigmatizing language such as “alcoholic.” Less than half of addiction psychiatry websites do the same.

“The gap between professional society recommendations and actual practice is concerning, since patients frequently use these online resources for information which can significantly influence their behavior and perceptions about alcohol-associated liver disease,” Zhang said.

Zhang’s anti-stigma efforts are grounded in strong evidence, according to Harvard Medical School psychiatrist  John F. Kelly , who published “Does It Matter How We Refer to Individuals with Substance-Related Conditions?” in 2009.

“Emphasizing non-stigmatizing language is crucial not only for fostering honesty but also for supporting the overall treatment process and patient outcomes.”

“Drug use disorder and alcohol use disorder are among the most stigmatized conditions universally across different societies because people feel that it’s self-induced — that people are to blame because they put it in their body,” said Kelly, also the founder of Mass General’s  Recovery Research Institute . “Just because they made that decision initially, doesn’t mean they plan on becoming addicted.”

In the 2009 study, Kelly and his colleagues described patients to more than 600 clinicians, alternating between “substance abuser” and “having a substance use disorder.” Those in the latter category were viewed more sympathetically and as more worthy of treatment. 

“I was quite surprised just how susceptible they were,” Kelly said. “These were passionate, dedicated clinicians. They were still susceptible to the negative punitive bias.”

They still are today, Zhang’s findings suggest. 

“We are very good at seeing patients with liver disease but if we add this behavioral mental disorder, it is somewhat out of our scope,” he said. “I think education could at least have them be more familiar with this topic and be willing to at least listen to the adoption and use of non-stigmatizing language.” 

“I think education could at least have them be more familiar with this topic and be willing to at least listen to the adoption and use of non-stigmatizing language.”

Building on the new study, Zhang has recommended to healthcare institutions and professional societies that they implement website feedback mechanisms and carry out regular content audits to guard against potentially harmful language. 

“The steps we are recommending should not only help to align clinical practice with sound language guidelines, but also foster a more empathetic and supportive healthcare environment for patients,” he said. 

Zhang also said healthcare institutions should look to leverage technology to support adoption of appropriate standards.

His team is collaborating with Mass General’s Research Patient Data Registry to obtain de-identified patient records, which they plan to review for instances of stigmatizing language. He hopes the process will help researchers quantify the prevalence of such language in clinical notes and identify patterns that can inform interventions. The team will also analyze the association of stigmatizing language with patient outcomes.  

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The Thesis Statement in a Persuasive Text

Alys Avalos-Rivera

In another chapter, we discussed the features of an informational essay. In this chapter, we will guide you to understand the essential elements of a similar type of academic text: the persuasive essay. Although informational and persuasive writing follow similar principles such as an orderly presentation of ideas that should be supported with evidence (e.g. facts, arguments, or examples), their purposes differ. The objective is written to take a stance (specific point of view) with respect to a controversial topic and persuade the audience to adopt the writer’s position. Because of this difference, the thesis statement of the persuasive essay needs to introduce the writer’s position in the controversy featured in the essay. Also, the preview of the essay’s structure should outline the arguments that the author will use to support his/her stance.

Should the US drinking age be lowered?

In the US, drinking alcoholic beverages is illegal for people under 21 years of age (minimum legal drinking age or MLDA). This law has long caused a great deal of disagreement and debates. While some people think it is paradoxical that young people of 18 cannot enter a bar but still go to war, others believe that the law is the best way to keep youth away from irresponsible and heavy drinking episodes (also called binge drinking). The following texts were written by readers of the New York Times” Room for Debate page to express their opinions about the subject. [1]

• Read the comments and underline the readers’ main arguments (reasons to support one position or the other).
• Identify which readers are against lowering the minimum drinking age (CON) and which are in favor (PRO)?
• Which arguments seem the least convincing? Which are the most persuasive? Why?

Content focus: Rating thesis statements

Considering these features, in the following task you will analyze how six college students drafted their thesis statements for a persuasive essay on the MLDA controversy. In the prompt used by the instructor for this assignment, students were required to address the following purposes:

• Present the PROs and CONs of the MLDA to a group of college students’ parents.
• Persuade the parents to vote in favor of lowering the MLDA to 18 years of age.

In other words, the writers need to take a stance on the issue. Read the Thesis Statement and assess how well each one fulfills the purposes given above and to what extent. Rate the Thesis Statement using a scale from 1 to 6, where 6 will stand for the best Thesis Statement and 1 will be given to the poorest. Be prepared to explain the reasons you have to support your rating.

a. The United States has more accidents caused by drivers under the influence of alcohol than other countries where there is no MLDA (        )

b. Young people should be allowed to drink without legal restrictions based on their age, which is ridiculous (        )

c. Parents should teach their children how to drink alcohol in moderation.  (        )

d. Lowering the MLDA will allow parents to introduce their children to alcohol use under the supervision and reduce the rate of accidents caused by drunken drivers (        )

e. A reduction in the MLDA will help neutralize teenagers’ obsession with drinking, allow parents to monitor their children first encounters with alcohol, and reduce the rate of accidents caused by irresponsible drinking.   (        )

f. Having the MLDA fixed at 21 is only increasing young people’s fascination with drinking in unsafe environments and using false IDs.     (        )

Guidelines for a thesis statement

What should be considered when drafting a thesis statement for an essay that aims to persuade the audience to take a stand in a controversial issue? Think of some possible guidelines to write an effective persuasive TS taking into account the following:

• How should you address your audience?
• Where in your text should you introduce your stance?
• What language features (words, phrases) could be useful?
• How can you connect your TS with the main arguments you will use in your essay?

Write your guidelines below and discuss them with your colleagues and your instructor:

In some of the thesis statements listed above, the writers use modal verbs such as will and should . The first one ( will ) is used to predict the results that could be achieved if the authorities follow a specific course of action regarding the MLDA. The second one ( should ) is used to recommend what should be done with respect to the MLDA. These and other modal verbs that express advice, convey an obligation, or predict an outcome are often used to introduce the writer’s stance because they are useful to express the speaker’s desires, or his/her ideas of how the world should be. Other modal verbs that are also used with these purposes are: must, can, could, ought to, and also the semi-modal have to .

When using modal verbs to compose your thesis statement, however, you should be careful to select the one that best represents your purpose. The meaning of your thesis statement can change a great deal if you use one or the other. Read the following examples and explain how the meaning has changed with each modal (in bold):

*Although ought to and must are accepted as standard forms, they are not used in Academic English very often because they imply a strong and categorical position. Scientists usually abstain from categorical statements because these expressions do not convey that the writer remains open to new possibilities. Scientist prefer to maintain a more open attitude in their writing in case new evidence is discovered in the future that can change their points of view about the world.

Although the participants in the Room for Debate’s and Star Wars pages hold different points of view regarding very different topics, they all engaged in their online discussions with a common purpose: persuading their audience of their point of view. They do so in a succinct fashion because their audience does not usually invest much time in reading blog posts that are too long and complex. Therefore, effective blog/forum posters try to be direct and present one single point per post. On the contrary, academic persuasive writing needs to be more detailed and provide the audience with more than just the author’s point of view.

• https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/02/10/you-must-be-21-to-drink ↵

The Thesis Statement in a Persuasive Text Copyright © 2020 by Alys Avalos-Rivera is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License , except where otherwise noted.

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My drinking problem taught me a hard truth about my home state

Whether it's pursuit of wisconsin's best beer or too many liquor store runs, the deeper issue is mental health..

The lonely streetlight shone like a full moon just for me as I tipped the liquor bottle into the night sky. It was my first time drunk – mouth numb, head singing – and trouble was on the way.

First when my parents heard their teenage son was drinking in the middle of town. But much more to come.

It would take years to admit I had a drinking problem. Not seeing it kept me from a healthy relationship with alcohol, and myself. Finally facing it led me to a deeper truth about one of Wisconsin’s defining cultural characteristics : We must address mental health if we want to stop ricocheting between avoiding and condemning what alcohol means to our home state.

Looking back I can see how my life was primed for alcohol abuse. Growing up on a farm in Wisconsin – proudly one of America’s top alcohol states – in a family descended from German immigrants known for hard work and harder drinking. Later working in journalism then politics, two famous drinking professions.

But, as legendary country music drunk George Jones sang , I had choices.

Alcohol a challenge, cultural touchstone in hard-drinking Wisconsin

As a boy I sat on my grandpa’s work shoes watching game shows as he snuck me sips of beer. Over the years various family and friends emerged as alcoholics – sometimes facing job loss or jail, sometimes concealing the turmoil. Others were good role models, people like my dad who shielded us from excessive drinking. Some adults in my life were both.

For me alcohol would be both a challenge and a meaningful cultural touchstone.

Drinking less is having a moment. The sober curious movement is making me wonder why I drink at all.

From early on, I struggled to live up to my dad, a third-generation farmer with talents for cattle and tractors I lacked. As I got older I learned he stood for a disappearing way of life I worried I didn’t fit, despite his love and support.

College offered new sources of self-worth, and a writing career that would wind through the worlds of journalism then public policy in Wisconsin, Tennessee and Washington, D.C. Drinking followed: College keggers, Nashville’s rowdy music scene , D.C. happy hours.

There was good and bad. Harmless party nights drew my sister and I closer after I left home. Darkened barrooms built some of my best friendships. But then there was the first time I chugged a beer before work on the worn linoleum floor of my apartment kitchen. It wasn’t long before I was many years past college, still doing all-night happy hours several nights a week, followed by weekend benders. Drinking when nobody else was became common.

I rationalized I was just taking the edge off my stressful, driven career. But I was also numbing a feeling I had let my family down, as the first eldest son in four generations not to farm. Drinking let me look away.

The night I called my future wife drunk and broke down crying

I want to be careful to not equate my experience with others, and I’m not claiming to face the same challenges as someone with diagnosed alcohol use disorder . I’m lucky: In the dozen years of my hardest drinking, from age 19 to 31, I didn’t destroy what I was working toward in life, nobody got hurt, and I never had a relationship destroyed.

But I taxed them. And it took years of growing professional responsibility, finally becoming clear in D.C., to start moderating. Returning to Wisconsin offered ways to reconnect with our way of life – from helping my dad, to deepening family ties, to spending time on our land, to writing – but I still fought an urge I didn’t understand.

Deer hunting is dying. That should worry you even if you don't hunt.

It was dark and lonely the night I called my future wife, and broke down crying. I was unexpectedly drunk, needing a ride, and finally wanting to talk to a therapist. Through years of working on my mental health I realized I felt I was failing people, tying all the way back to childhood.

There are people with problems they can curb, like I was lucky to do. Others face steeper biological alcohol dependence, and decide to quit altogether. But these days I believe whoever it is, we must take a sober look to help them identify their deeper issue, if we want a healthy pastime.

Some issues heal over time. Recently my first daughter was born, and I went to a favorite supper club to get carryout our first week home. I had a cocktail waiting at the bar, and despite the stress and fear of failure accompanying my joy, I felt no need for another.

I finished up, and went home.

Brian Reisinger grew up on a family farm in Sauk County, Wisconsin. He contributes columns and videos for the Ideas Lab at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,  where this column first published . Reisinger works in public affairs consulting for Platform Communications. He is the author of the forthcoming book " Land Rich, Cash Poor ."

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Less alcohol, or none at all, is one path to better health

Moderate drinking was once thought to have benefits for the heart. But better research methods have thrown cold water on that idea. A growing number of public health experts say if you choose to drink alcohol, you should drink as little as possible. (AP Video: Laura Bargfeld)

FILE - Bottles of alcohol sit on shelves at a bar in Houston on June 23, 2020. Moderate drinking was once thought to have benefits for the heart, but better research methods starting in the 2010s have thrown cold water on that. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

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It’s wine time. Beer Thirty. Happy hour. Five o’clock somewhere.

Maybe it’s also time to rethink drinking ?

Moderate drinking was once thought to have benefits for the heart, but better research methods have thrown cold water on that.

“Drinking less is a great way to be healthier,” said Dr. Timothy Naimi, who directs the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.

AP AUDIO: Less alcohol, or none at all, is one path to better health.

AP correspondent Haya Panjwani reports.

ARE DRINKING GUIDELINES CHANGING?

Guidelines vary a lot from country to country but the overall trend is toward drinking less.

The United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Holland and Australia recently reviewed new evidence and lowered their alcohol consumption recommendations. Ireland will require cancer warning labels on alcohol starting in 2026.

“The scientific consensus has shifted due to the overwhelming evidence linking alcohol to over 200 health conditions, including cancers, cardiovascular diseases and injuries,” said Carina Ferreira-Borges, regional adviser for alcohol at the World Health Organization regional office for Europe.

From Dry January to Sober October to bartenders getting creative with non-alcoholic cocktails , there’s a cultural vibe that supports cutting back.

“People my age are way more accepting of it,” said Tessa Weber, 28, of Austin, Texas. She stopped drinking for Dry January this year because she’d noticed alcohol was increasing her anxiety. She liked the results — better sleep, more energy — and has stuck with it.

“It’s good to reevaluate your relationship with alcohol,” Weber said.

WAIT, MODERATE DRINKING DOESN’T HAVE HEALTH BENEFITS?

That idea came from imperfect studies comparing groups of people by how much they drink. Usually, consumption was measured at one point in time. And none of the studies randomly assigned people to drink or not drink, so they couldn’t prove cause and effect.

People who report drinking moderately tend to have higher levels of education, higher incomes and better access to health care, Naimi said.

“It turns out that when you adjust for those things, the benefits tend to disappear,” he said.

Another problem: Most studies didn’t include younger people. Almost half of the people who die from alcohol-related causes die before the age of 50.

“If you’re studying people who survived into middle age, didn’t quit drinking because of a problem and didn’t become a heavy drinker, that’s a very select group,” Naimi said. “It creates an appearance of a benefit for moderate drinkers that is actually a statistical illusion.”

Other studies challenge the idea that alcohol has benefits. These studies compare people with a gene variant that makes it unpleasant to drink to people without the gene variant. People with the variant tend to drink very little or not at all. One of these studies found people with the gene variant have a lower risk of heart disease — another blow to the idea that alcohol protects people from heart problems.

HOW MANY DRINKS CAN I HAVE PER DAY?

That depends.

Drinking raises the risk of several types of cancer , including colon, liver, breast and mouth and throat. Alcohol breaks down in the body into a substance called acetaldehyde, which can damage your cells and stop them from repairing themselves. That creates the conditions for cancer to grow.

Thousands of U.S. deaths per year could be prevented if people followed the government’s dietary guidelines, which advise men to limit themselves to two drinks or fewer per day and women to one drink or fewer per day, Naimi said.

One drink is the equivalent of about one 12-ounce can of beer, a 5-ounce glass of wine or a shot of liquor.

Naimi served on an advisory committee that wanted to lower the recommendation for men to one drink per day . That advice was considered and rejected when the federal recommendations came out in 2020.

“The simple message that’s best supported by the evidence is that, if you drink, less is better when it comes to health,” Naimi said.

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