Why do you think teenagers start smoking and drinking alcohol as a small age? what is the reasons behind it?

Question

What is there to be poved? that they became adults and responsible? or is it the bad influence advertsisment and irresponsible older adults have on them?

Answer 1

Most people recall their 1st drink being given to them by an adult or of them taking a drink from their parent's glass when the parent wasn't looking when they were very small...like 4-5y.o.

At that time they want to be like their parents. They may steal drinks from their parent's stock of alcohol as they grow older.

As they get older, there is peer pressure to drink & also the attraction of the forbidden.

In families that use alcohol in religious rituals as children are growing up, the children are less likely to drink to excess when they get older.

Answer 2

peer pressure and boredom stress in their life and plain just playing follow the leader.

Answer 3

i think its the older adults.. also TV .. yea TV is the main reason i think... keep your children away from it!! lol

Answer 4

Curious.  We can never drink beer so we want to know what it tastes like and what it does.  Same with other stuff.

Answer 5

Well, personally, it was the curiosity. I tried--and I didn't like it. It's as simple as that. Everyone, for the most part, is going to try--whether it's due to peer pressure, boredom, or just curiosity. Why people continue? That's a different question. Unfortunately, I have no answer...because, you don't have to keep doing it...and there is no reason to.

Answer 6

Its because its illegal it isnt as fun when its legal.

Answer 7

that`s a situation when a child feels like to be burden like somwaht or get influenced by a popular smoker, alchoholic person.

that may be bcoz of the neglegence of the family , nervousness , or due to unsureness(modest).

that may be also bcoz of lack of patience.

this comes under child deliquency or juvinille deliquency.

right now in india there are 92 deliquent home.

they r really very helpfull to such children and help them to get into right path.

Answer 8

Children with many activities seem to be the ones who don't have time for all that stuff.  The ones who just go to school and come home after it is done and their parents are at work, when they get home, have idle minds.  And an idle mind is the worst state to be in because you are bored and you find things that will get you into trouble because it gets you attention.  It may not be the attention you want to get but it is still attention.  Parents need to talk to their children at a small age and drill it into their heads what they expect from their children, to include how to recognize the bad from the good.  Roll play and get them experienced to say no to the bad and yes to the good.  You went through peer pressure and theirs is always greater but if you prepare them they will have no problem making the right decision because they know what you would rather have them do.

Answer 9

So they can look Cool in front of their friends. They don't look cool to me, they look "Stupid".

Answer 10

We have a personal ego and a social ego, or better to say, we gain pride from our actions, and then from the actions of others based on our actions. Yea a bit long winded but it shows how much were social creatures. This is both a reflect of independence, human curiousity, and the need to impress our peers, compounded by the social environment only giving us these as outlets for this. It is the same path our parents took thou, which is the important thing to understand, that all functioning adults go thru this phase of muturation. It could almost be seen as a sign of faster growth the earlier this occurs. Its an important phase to where alot of different issues we well deal with for the rest of our lives come to head. Problems only occur if we don't have parents that are welling to talk to us about it, relate their experiences, and show other paths of belonging.

Answer 11

It's called peer pressure...

that's about it.... it may be indirect pressure... but there is always a desire to fit in with a group...

and lets face it.. getting drunk and stoned is way more fun than playing basketball...

Answer 12

I'm in my late teens and I don't do drugs

or drink, or smoke. I think it's the media

that is driving a great deal of teens up the wall.

It doesn't mean you can't have fun it just means

you shouldn't lose yourself. I think the environment

when I was in my earlier teens (12-15) is different

from today, It's very very wild out there it's shocking

to hear 12 yearolds talking about being pregnant!

Answer 13

all of the above.........peer pressure, bad influences, etc.

Answer 14

Rebellion.  I think that once kids get to a certain age they want to prove that they can make their own decisions (bad or not).  I think it also has something to do with taboos.  They want to prove to themselves that they can do something they have been told not to do.

I was a teenager once too, but then I grew up and realized when  my mother told me I didn't know anything yet she was right.

Answer 15

to try to be older than they really are

Answer 16

They probably want to act older. They don't realize that harm can be done from their actions.

Some parents allow their kids to drink when young. So they are setting a bad example. I'm sure advertising has a lot to do with it.