Cheers to drop in underage drinking: Your Say

Underage drinking dropped to 22.7% in 2013, from 28.8% in 2002, a new government study found. Underage binge drinking decreased to 14.2% from 19.3% during the same years. Comments from Facebook are edited for clarity and grammar:

I am praying that this decline is the result of parents teaching their children about alcohol consumption. I taught my son, and he now can take or leave it. Mostly he leaves it.

— Wayne Wastier

You can get married, buy a firearm and smoke before you are 21, but you can't buy a beer legally. That is absolute nonsense.

— John Smith

Preventing underage college students from purchasing alcohol has cleaned up college campuses for the better.

— J Thomas Gaffney

The decline in underage alcohol consumption and binge drinking must be because of the easy availability of marijuana and other recreational-type chemicals.

The kids are merely switching to their drug of choice, if they are switching from alcohol at all.

— Dirk Lord

I've never understood why the legal drinking age is 21. I think it does very little to deter 18- to 20-year-olds from getting alcohol whenever they want. You're deemed to be an adult by society in nearly every way when you're 18, and that should be the legal drinking age. Frankly, making alcohol off-limits to kids simply makes them want to do it even more.

I seriously doubt this finding that underage drinking is dropping.

— Joel Christopher Driver