| Craan said: Drinking, it seems as if it's becoming increasingly common among teenagers, and I'm not talking about the college crowd, I'm talking about those who aren't even old enough to smoke .Drinking, and not just a glass of wine at dinner or a beer at a party I'm talking about kids, getting wasted to use the parlance of are time. (Now I don't drink, when I do things I tend to over do them, I haven't been playing video games that much over the past couple years but when I do play I play all day long, when I read I read all day long, when I eat I eat until theres nothing left or I'm about to throw up, and if I drank I'd probably do it until I passed out.) I find it troubling that most of my friends and a large percentage of the people I go to school with equate drinking or smoking or partying as adult things to do and I sense that a big factor behind much of the drinking that goes on among high school students, is that it is a mature adult thing to do. Just like when I was in 6th grade and the most popular game among my friends was GTA because they equated it with being grown up (I also remember being criticized for having a Gamecube because it was "kiddy"). Now you may wonder why I'm upset about my classmates drinking? I am upset not only because it highlights the false ideas about maturity they hold, but also because of the numerous negative consequences that drinking, particularly underage drinking, such as the bad decisions that people can make when ther'ye drunk, unprotected sex and drinking and driving, and also the effects on the still developing brain. So what do you think about drinking and driving?
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Bolded: That sounds really weird :/ The drinking age should be lower, or the same, as the smoking age.
I think you could reduce drink driving cases by making the drinking age lower than the driving age.
I just checked your age. It is perfectly normal for an 18 year old to get drunk at least once a week in the UK. Alcohol isn't the devil :)
