drinking age

drinking age

In poker, a slang term for the initial hand of a Two and an Ace, referring to the legal age to purchase alcohol in the US, 21. Also called an Acey Deucey or an A2. I felt pretty good after I was dealt a drinking age, but the rest of the cards gave me nothing to work with.
See also: age, drink
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References in periodicals archive
It seems that there would be one simple and convincing argument to make for lowering the drinking age. Amethyst Initiative supporters need to show that the prohibition has actually created more drinking among 18- to 20-year-olds than it has prevented.
Lowering drinking age to 18 would be giant step backward
Efforts in states including Minnesota, Wisconsin and Vermont to relax the drinking age have been rebuffed.
College presidents spark debate on drinking age
McCardell further contends that the 21-year-old drinking age has not changed drinking habits on college campuses.
Keep 21-year-old drinking age
Since Congress passed the Uniform Drinking Age Act in 1984, traffic fatalities involving drivers aged 18 to 20 have been cut by 13 percent, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Drinking while young
Should we raise the drinking age, lower it or leave it at 18?
Your Shout: Should we lower the legal age for drinking?
During the 1970s and into the early 1980s, many states lowered their legal drinking age from 21 to 18 or 19.
Starting a dialogue: against the odds, a former college president takes aim at the 21 drinking age
Tom Watson (Lab West Bromwich East) said: "I'm not sure raising the drinking age would help but we could make more use of alcohol control zones, which ban people from drinking outside except in specially licensed areas."
MPs reject police chief's call for drink age to 21
Amy Brook, 17, said: "Making the drinking age higher is just another way to make England more Americanised and it won't stop underage drinking."
FRESH
The apparent "consensus" is that Alberta's current drinking age is too low and contributes to a raft of problems.
But parents would have to stay home: raising the legal drinking age does little positive good, when compared to teaching youth how to drink at home
Although many governments have responded with legislative steps to restrict alcohol consumption in young people (e.g., Gonzalez, 1989; Lotterhos et al., 1988), New Zealand recently took the controversial step of lowering the drinking age from 20 to 18.
Indirect effects of lowering the drinking age on New Zealand students' alcohol-related behaviours and attitudes
The Task Force has recommended that states maintain and enforce minimum legal drinking age laws and "zero tolerance" laws for young drivers.
Involvement by young drivers in fatal alcohol-related motor-vehicle crashes--United States, 1982-2001
Police discovered what they called a ``big booze party'' being held by the eight, seven of whom were under the legal drinking age of 21.
WEIRD IN THE USA; It's just another world over the pond
Such environmental interventions may be national in scope (e.g., uniform drinking age), regional (e.g., state- or provincial-level zero-tolerance or graduated driver licensing laws(1)), local (e.g., local zoning to reduce outlet density), or even at the level of institutions (e.g., policies in bars, stores, schools).
Adolescent drinking and alcohol policy
This study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to investigate the effect of minimum drinking age laws (MDALs) on youth alcohol consumption.
A NOTE ON THE EFFECT OF MINIMUM DRINKING AGE LAWS ON YOUTH ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION
The rates also dropped when the legal drinking age was raised (MMWR 49[16]:346-49, 2000).
CDC Brewhaha