the drinking age

First of all, I would like to start out by saying that it's a little ridiculous that in the United States you are a legal adult and yet, you can't buy beer. I understand the rules about drinking and driving. But to make it absolutely illegal to drink or buy alcohol until you're 21 isn't going to help the situation with teens getting in car wrecks. So if it's legal to kill your lungs with cigarettes, you might as well take out the liver while you're at it.