Stop and think twice
Each year approximately 5,000 teens die due to
drinking alcohol, which includes about 1,900 deaths from motor vehicle crashes,
1,600 homicides, 300 from suicides, as well as other injuries such as drowning,
burns and falls. Teenagers drink because of peer pressure or bad influence from
family members or a friend. I believe the influence of drinking towards
teenagers can change the way they think of alcohol and think twice before
drinking, which can cause death, violent crimes, child abuse and a lot of other
problems to your family and the society
Alcohol companies that make these drinks also give bad influence to teens. They say that is okay to drink which will make the teens think its okay and do more. Not only have the advertisements been attracting people who are of legal age to drink, but these advertisements have also been targeting the youth. It’s obvious these advertisements are targeting the youth because in most of the advertisements it uses sports and music stars to show young people that it is cool. These days’ kids watch television constantly which means they will see all these advertisements which sometimes include cute animals to be in them to make them watch more and more. People know we can't stop others from watching the television but the ads can be banned from T.V. Before students graduate high school, they will spend as much time as 18,000 hours in front of the television and will watch about 2,000 alcohol advertisements in U.S. Researches observed that exposure to alcohol advertisements was linked with an increased tendency of drinking, as were magazine advertisement and drinking stand at sporting events. Advertisements are not the only resource that tells the young kids drinking alcohol is cool, but it’s also their friends who encourage them to drink.
Your
friends and school-life also makes a difference to your drinking life. Friends
also make others drink. They will start by saying that is okay to drink and
that it is cool which will make you think it’s also okay. This is called peer
pressure, even though you don’t want to drink you are forced to, whether your
friends are making you, or you just want to fit in with the group and seem
cool. Most teens think it’s cool to drink alcohol, but in my opinion
it is not, because it affects your body especially when you are growing up.
Researches have discovered that the younger you start to drink your brain will
be more damaged because that is the time when your body is growing, and when
you intoxicate yourself with alcohol it can effect the way your body grows. Drinking
with friends can also ruin the friendship because when you are drunk, due to
too much of alcohol, you do not know what is happening and do not have full
control of your body
If
all these influences stop or if the teens think twice before drinking alcohol I
believe the percentages of under age drinking will lower down in the future.
"It is critical that parents and other trusted adults
initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the
first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol." - Xavier
Becerra
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