Minimum Legal Drinking Ages: 1975 (IMAGE)

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Minimum Legal Drinking Ages: 1975

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By 1975, many states had lowered the minimum legal drinking age from 21 (shown in yellow) to 18 (brown) or 19 (orange).

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Washington University School of Medicine

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