under age drinking
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Under Age Drinking Paper
Drinking alcohol at such a young age is an enormous risk and can have long-term affects on the human body. Yet alone “In 2009, about 10.4 million young people between ages 12 and 20 drank more than “just a few sips” of alcohol.”(Underage Drinking) drinking alcohol under the age of 21 is illegal in the United States making it a crime. More teenagers are drinking alcohol every year for example parties, entertainment, or just for fun, this can have an effect in our future generations. Under age drinking should be stopped, because the hobbits they perform during there teenage years well affect there adult life’s, secondly under age drinking can have deadly consequences, and lastly under age drinking is performed under peer pressure.
Drinking alcohol can become very addicting it contains chemicals that make its consumer addicted making us build habits to drink alcohol more frequently. A habit is something you do for fun or frequently continue to do over and over again until it becomes a pattern that you become a customs to. I have seen many of my friends drink alcohol and they just told me “This is the last time I’m drinking” but it never was the next week they are continuing there habit of drinking with out even realizing it. Now that I’m older I recently went to go see my friend, tell this day he continues to drink alcohol carrying his bad habit of drinking. So I came to the conclusion, if a teenager does under age drinking he or she will continue to drink and find friends that have the same hobbies as they get older meaning they well continue drinking even after they get older having health problems. The habits a teenager performs during those years will carry on to his adult life making under age drinking harmful for the future. “Young people who begin drinking before age 14 are five times more likely to experience alcohol-related injury later in life, while those who start before
Under Age Drinking Paper
Drinking alcohol at such a young age is an enormous risk and can have long-term affects on the human body. Yet alone “In 2009, about 10.4 million young people between ages 12 and 20 drank more than “just a few sips” of alcohol.”(Underage Drinking) drinking alcohol under the age of 21 is illegal in the United States making it a crime. More teenagers are drinking alcohol every year for example parties, entertainment, or just for fun, this can have an effect in our future generations. Under age drinking should be stopped, because the hobbits they perform during there teenage years well affect there adult life’s, secondly under age drinking can have deadly consequences, and lastly under age drinking is performed under peer pressure.
Drinking alcohol can become very addicting it contains chemicals that make its consumer addicted making us build habits to drink alcohol more frequently. A habit is something you do for fun or frequently continue to do over and over again until it becomes a pattern that you become a customs to. I have seen many of my friends drink alcohol and they just told me “This is the last time I’m drinking” but it never was the next week they are continuing there habit of drinking with out even realizing it. Now that I’m older I recently went to go see my friend, tell this day he continues to drink alcohol carrying his bad habit of drinking. So I came to the conclusion, if a teenager does under age drinking he or she will continue to drink and find friends that have the same hobbies as they get older meaning they well continue drinking even after they get older having health problems. The habits a teenager performs during those years will carry on to his adult life making under age drinking harmful for the future. “Young people who begin drinking before age 14 are five times more likely to experience alcohol-related injury later in life, while those who start before
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