teenage drinking has become a problem in our society why?
88389
Teenage Drinking has been a problem since the begining of the production of alcholic beverages.\n\nIt is considered a rite of passage to consume alcohol. Our social mores consider "drinking" a rite of passage.  Peer pressure, media, and the acceptance sitgma that it's OK to Drink are all around us.\n\nThe problem will only be solved with Education, and a society that frounds upon the problem. A control over the Media and advertisment will also be needed.  Much Like the ban on smoking, a campaign is needed to reach this eventual goal.  Smoking negative media, and the ban on certain advertisement had reduced some of the smoking is cool attitude.  The same needs to be applied to the alcohol industry.  Or are all the cool Ads from the Superbowl, budweiser etc, continue to influence our social attitudes toward drinking in general?
905369
That is the biggest problem with our society today, we don't take responsibility for our actions. These people commit crimes, then want to blame their moms, or their dads, cause they didn't love them enough, or were abused while growing up. they want to blame everyone and everything except the one person who committed the crime, Themselves.\n\nThey already have more rights than their victims so why don't we just send them to an island someplace, serve alcohol 24/7 with topless waitress's, and let them live the life of luxury. I think we need to bring back the chain gangs and make these people want to stay out prison.
9257
I completely agree.  The United States is very alone in this area.  Most states had a lower drinking age some as low as 17 just twenty years ago!  But some crazy concervatives thought differently so this a new silly law was put into effect in the Regan years.  If all states didn't comply with raising the drinking age to 21, they would lose their federal funding on Highways.......so you are now a victim of a concervative perspective on your alcohol intake.\n\nThe reasoning is flawed and of course so are a lot of other things when it comes to making laws.  \n\nPeace!\n:)
10938
It is believed "alcohol consumption is undesirable and dangerous; it typically results in problem behavior; and drinking in any degree is equally undesirable because moderate social drinking is the forerunner of chronic inebriation. Naturally, young people, if not everyone, should be protected from alcohol, according to this view."
672815
Talk about how it has always been around but the incidence -especially among teens has skyrocketed over the past 15-20 years. When you start a paper you always want to make a case for why it's important and why you chose the subject.
699495
Me.  We have a major parenting problem in society today.
1063539
Remember that the most dangerous and damaging drugs are already legal - tobacco and alcohol.  So should we legalise all the others?  Well some think that by making drugs available, usage will increase and therefore more people will have a drug 'problem'; however I think it's fair to say the only 'problem' with drugs is the associated crime that affects others in society.  If someone chooses to mess up their heads with drugs, that's their right.  It becomes a problem when they steal from others or hurt others in the process of getting money for drugs.\n\nIf we legalised all drugs, we could ensure that minors did not have access to them (think of the legislation around booze and cigs), we could fund health services and drug rehab centres, we could monitor the usage, trends and predict problem areas, we could ensure the quality (most heroin overdoses are caused by high quality heroin accidentally being injected), and we could create safe places for people to use drugs in a safe way.\n\nSo yes, let's bite the bullet and legalise them.  I don't use drugs (except the odd glass of wine), but I would fully support my fellow human beings' choice to do what they wish with their lives, as well as enjoy the knowledge that such a move would reduce the likelihood of my house being broken into or me being mugged for my wallet.
162066
Only three things are going to work:\n1. Eliminate alcohol and tobacco. Ain't gonna happen.\n2. Constant monitoring of teenagers. Very expensive.\n3. Explain the consequences of smoking and drinking to them, without lying. This will not have a 100 percent effectiveness rate, because many teenagers feel they are old enough to make these decisions without the info.
1115972
Crime is up because society has done away with discipline\ncant spank kids at home\nschools cant correct behavior\n\nRemove all right and wrong and society implodes\n\nMy opinion
472859
For. Part of our problem in this country is lack of punishment. Without the threat of punishment crime goes wild. We need to make the punishment fit the crime and stop letting people off on technicalities.
80528
I would say Self-Esteem issues, peer pressure, girls thinking that they should look like girls in the videos or magazines, thus wanting to have comestic surgery to look like someone else, giving in to sex under pressure or too soon, and under age drinking.  Teens... just be the best person you can be.  Be you.
581026
well it has many effects, especially because they are your friends. Peer pressure has a lot to do with the teens and adults drinking right now, because they offer and the teen or adult don't say no because they "want to be cool like their friends." and then they get used to it and then they become alcohol addicts.
880452
I think there are several factors behind our behind our binge drinking society.\n\nFirstly we are all so stressed out all the time due to the pressures of modern life that we use alcohol to switch off.\n\nThen there was the nineties with TV programs like "Ibiza Uncovered" and "Club Reps" which glamorized our growing binge drink culture making it seem a desirable lifestyle choice to go out binge drinking.\n\nThen there is the breakdown of structured society and its rules which allows millions of feral youths to feel like they can do what they want every night with a blatant disregard for anyone or anything that gets in the way of them having a "good time".\n\nThere is also the TV advertising which very cleverly advertises its products towards it's market (young people) making alcohol seem sexy and desirable.
389746
The teens today are abused by drugs,ban drugs and smoking.They have also freedom of speech like any other person.18 and above have the right of suffrage,they can vote.\n\nis that it?
149422
there shouldnt be a certain age. instead, people should be taught to think in a rational & realistic manner. this way, such things wont be glamorized & wind up playing into pop cultre as a forbidden fruit. stigma removed, minor indulgences may not be taken seriously leading to decriminalization. legal issues, as everyone (should by now) knows, lead to social paranoias and drain the judicials recources while padding pockets of preditor officials & politicians with the money & property siezed from those accused of aleged crimes. crimes committed while intoxicated are never fault of illicit substances, merely a scapegoat for the irresponsible thus fukn up my rights to pursue alternative recreaton.
252225
Nope, and I don't plan to. I don't want to just be another teen statistic. I refuse to be. I hate it that everyone thinks all teens are drinking, smoking, doing drugs, or having sex. And the media is mostly to blame. So, yeah. Excuse that little rant...I'm 13 about to be 14...
343419
Hey I'm 18-- The reason teens do drugs, smoke, and drink is because it makes you look better also, when you're having a horrible day it feels soooooo good to just get high or drunk to let all your problems go because when you're high you don't have to think about every thing that's happening. The reason teens have problems with parents is because they are closed minded. I mean like when you've had a bad day your folks try to say they know what its like but they don't know what it feels like to be you because the would is way different than in the 1970's or 80's. The world is a bad place to grow up in and I wish for once that they would just listen to me and agree that life isn't fair. That's the reason kids do drugs.