Binge Drinking Persuasive Speech
Teen drinking it's been around hmmm... forever? A handful of teens gather around in some kids basement who's parents don't truly love them and drink that devil sauce. I was scrolling through the Reddits, and came across this article, "Alcohol use, binge drinking continues to fall among underage, reports finds". I honestly didn't believe it, I've only remember hearing bad stuff about my generation. Like how we're more lazier than the past generations, higher pregnancy among teens, not as capable as others. BUT look at us now! We don't love the sauce as much as you guys(past generations)!
Robert Gebelhoff writer for the Washington Post says, "A new government report found that both drinking and binge drinking among young people fell significantly
between 2002 and 2013. The percentage of underage people who drank declined from 28.8 percent to 22.7 percent. The proportion of binge drinkers — people who consumed five or more drinks during one occasion — decreased from 19.3 percent to 14.2 percent, according to the report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration."(Gebelhoff) That's a decrees of... 6.1%, sorry I'm really bad at math. Takes a while sometimes.
But let's go back, why where teens drinking so much in 2002!? 2002 was awesome! Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets came out. Confirming my little boy heart that Emma Watson was the most beautiful girl alive! It was a great year on it's own.
Plus drinking underage is totally uncool, if you don't take proper care of yourself. Blah blah blah, I'm a teen, nobody understands me, so I'm going to get drunk! Shut up! Gebehoff later says, "Alcohol is a factor in the deaths of some 4,300 underage drinkers each year and in hundreds of thousands of hospital visits, according to the CDC." So all the teens out there trying to binge drink, I would say just don't do it. I'd say wait until you're over the age of 21. Then when you notice your life is starting to shatter around you that's when you binge drink. It would taste so much sweeter.
Robert Gebelhoff writer for the Washington Post says, "A new government report found that both drinking and binge drinking among young people fell significantly
between 2002 and 2013. The percentage of underage people who drank declined from 28.8 percent to 22.7 percent. The proportion of binge drinkers — people who consumed five or more drinks during one occasion — decreased from 19.3 percent to 14.2 percent, according to the report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration."(Gebelhoff) That's a decrees of... 6.1%, sorry I'm really bad at math. Takes a while sometimes.
But let's go back, why where teens drinking so much in 2002!? 2002 was awesome! Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets came out. Confirming my little boy heart that Emma Watson was the most beautiful girl alive! It was a great year on it's own.
Plus drinking underage is totally uncool, if you don't take proper care of yourself. Blah blah blah, I'm a teen, nobody understands me, so I'm going to get drunk! Shut up! Gebehoff later says, "Alcohol is a factor in the deaths of some 4,300 underage drinkers each year and in hundreds of thousands of hospital visits, according to the CDC." So all the teens out there trying to binge drink, I would say just don't do it. I'd say wait until you're over the age of 21. Then when you notice your life is starting to shatter around you that's when you binge drink. It would taste so much sweeter.