1, The current United States legal drinking age is 21.

2, So far, no state has changed its drinking age.

3, Should the alcoholic drinking age be increased or decreased?

4, In parts of Europe, the legal drinking age for beer, and sometimes hard liquor, is 16.

5, In parts of Europe, the legal drinking age for beer, and sometimes hard liquor, is sixteen.

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7, Here, Congress has acted indirectly under its spending power to encourage uniformity in the States' drinking ages.

8, This goal of the interstate highway system had been frustrated by varying drinking ages among the States.

9, Here Congress has offered relatively mild encouragement to the States to enact higher minimum drinking ages than they would otherwise choose.

10, As we explain below, we find this legislative effort within constitutional bounds even if Congress may not regulate drinking ages directly.

11, Although the driver who killed Lightner's daughter was in his 40s, one result of the group's work was that all 50 states passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act in 1984, raising that age to 21.