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The real debate here is whether the projections used concerning traffic fatalities to compel the age change have proven accurate or not. Under the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984, all states were to raise the legal drinking age to 21 or risk losing federal highway funds. By 1987, all states were compliant, which has given us over 20 years of data to make an educated decision about the correlation between legal drinking age and highway fatalities related to drinking. According to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration publication 1, traffic fatalities for people under 21...