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No one under the age of 21 is allowed to drink in Texas.
The drinking age in Texas is 21 and is in line with Federal Laws. The only exception is that minors can drink in their homes and some other places as long as the parent is present. Texas has no plans to change the drinking age.
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18 is the legal age for smoking in the state of Indiana
The legal drinking age in Texas was 18 in 1977. Texas lowered the minimum drinking age from 21 to 18 in 1973, raised it from 18 to 19 in 1981, and raised it from 19 to 21 in 1986.
The Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 was a federal law that boosted the drinking age from 18 to 21.
The legal drinking age is decided on state-level, but the National Minimum Drinking Age Act from 1984 sets a legal drinking age of 21. If the state doesen't keep it at 21 they can loose money from the national highway funding.
Every state in the United States has moved the drinking age from 18 to 21. In Aspen Colorado, the legal drinking age is 21.
After the end of Prohibition in 1933, the legal drinking age in the United States varied by state. Many states initially set the drinking age at 21, but some states had lower ages. In 1984, the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was passed, which required all states to raise the minimum legal drinking age to 21 or face a reduction in federal highway funds.
The minimum purchase and drinking age is a state law. Each individual U.S. state establishes by law the minimum age at which an individual may purchase alcoholic beverages. The minimum drinking age is 21 in all 50 U.S. states.