Tuesday, July 19, 2005

The Age of Drinking

Because I've got nothing better to post this morning, I'll offer an unsolicited clarification to a story in today's SJ-R.

In a story about local stores and bars carding alcohol purchasers there is the statement that "Twenty-one turned 21 Sunday". Well, the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was signed into law on July 17, 1984 (the bill required all States to raise their minimum drinking age to 21 within 2 years or lose a portion of their Federal-aid highway funds). But Illinois had imposed a 21 year old drinking age (up from 19) effective January 1, 1980. For more discussion and my own bitter experience see my comment under this post.

There, done nitpicking.

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