> will be the game’s 21st birthday, allowing Bond to finally taste one of his revered cocktails
Legal drinking age is 18 in the UK, I'm amazed it's as high as 21 in the US.
Legal drinking age is 18 in the UK, I'm amazed it's as high as 21 in the US.
During high school, and prior to attending Driver's Ed classes, we had an assembly organized by various local chapters of anti-drunk driving groups, where a guy in his late 20's spoke about being amputated below the waist, because when he drove into a large tree, the engine block rebounded through the dashboard, and onto his pelvis, coming home from the bar one night. People talk about how prior to automotive safety standards developed in the 1990's (air bags, anti-lock brakes) cars were absolute death traps, and I believe it.
That movement achieved some of its goals with those laws, and receded during the 1990's when broader programs encompassing drugs and social diseases were more normalized.
I think it makes sense, because in the United States, people find some amount of identity in the cars they own, which seems to be less intense throughout Europe, where driving absolutely everywhere isn't as ingrained into daily life and culture.
But they say this is because almost everyone who has an alcohol use disorder started drinking before they were 18.
I'm not sure they've got the causal direction correct.
Hertz and Avis were well ahead of the game.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=141164...
I later found out that, at the time, there was no law preventing me from acquiring the room, but the hotel policy was to not allow unaccompanied individuals under 21.