D. A. R. E: Drug, Abuse, Resistance, Education

To start off with the first negative effect of smoking is that it is extremely bad for your health. In 2004, a Study by the CDC 's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion found that cigarette smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer. Such as Acetaldehyde, Beryllium (a toxic metal), Butadiene (a hazardous gas), Cadmium (a toxic metal) these are just a few of

Drinking among teenagers is prone to cause long term damages in their life. At the adolescent stage, teenagers brain are still developing up until the they are in the 20’s. It is a fact that alcohol causes brain damages to anyone who consumes it but because of this occurrence in adolescent’s body,they are more affected by this. According to Saner in the article Health: Drunk young things: Teenage drinkers don 't just risk making fools of

Drinking at a young age can lead to brain damage and terrible decisions. Alcohol affects these three main parts of human development, the brain, liver, and hormonal system. In addition, drinking alcohol actually shortens a person’s lifespan. By slowly damaging your body with alcohol you are taking more and more time out of your life meaning you might not get to see the future you always wished for. As stated by thefix.com “Most are fully aware that heavy drinking is hard on the body, but a new study revealed alcoholism actually reduces one’s lifespan by an average of 7.6 years.” (Alcoholism Shortens Lifespan By Nearly a Decade, Study Finds. (n.d.). Retrieved March 23, 2017, from https://www.thefix.com/content/alcoholism-shortens-lifespan-nearly-decade-study-finds) and pbskids.org also states “Adults have lived longer, and so they are supposed to be better at making decisions and judgments, like whether one has had too much to drink.” (It's My Life. Body. Alcohol. Your Questions | PBS Kids GO! (n.d.). Retrieved March 23, 2017, from http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/body/alcohol/article8.html). Drinking also, damages the gums and may produce gum disease. Many teens care about their appearance while drinking they are ruining their teeth and could end up with gum disease. All in all, drinking at a young age can affect your body and destroy your

Even though people think that it doesn’t affect the brain when they drink it really does. Drinking by those below the age of 21 is strongly linked with school performance problems such as higher absenteeism and poor or failing grades. Alcohol has many effects on the brain such as impaired memory, slurred speech, blurred vision, and difficulty walking. When teens drink these effects can be more harmful to their not fully developed brain. Alcohol furthermore diminishes the size of the brain and affects the reaction time of the person drinking. Drinking can cause blackouts or memory loss, which can be harmful to teens and may cause them to do something they regret. Drinking does affect the brain and the effects can have a long-term effect on teenagers.

Things can happen to the teens once they drink alcohol. The alcohol consumption can interfere with the development of the teenager’s brain frontal lobes, essential for functions like emotional regulation, planning, and organization. It would increase traffic accidents if a teen’s were to drink at a young age. The young teens won't be able to even handle the alcohol because it's strong. Also they won't be able to handle the outcomes like having a hangover, being tipsy, etc. They are too young to even drink at a young age.

Teens have different metabolisms than adults, and they get drunk more quickly and from fewer drinks. This can lead to injury from alcohol poisoning, drowning, falls, fires, and car crashes. If you drink and drive, not only you can

It is very easy to become addicted to tobacco because it contains nicotine, which is extremely addictive. Nicotine is also very harmful to the body. Cigarettes have multiple components that are unnatural and not good for the body, like methanol, stearic acid, and methane. Tobacco also has many short-term and long-term side effects. Some of the short-term side effects are increased respiration and heart rate, bad breath, yellowing teeth, and changes in brain chemistry. Some of the long-term effects are lung cancer, coronary heart disease, and a weakened immune system. An easy way to avoid unnatural chemicals, risk of disease, and risk of addiction, is to never start consuming tobacco at

Tobacco products can harm your body, mind, and harm others around. Smoking can harm you in multiple ways, it can cause cancer in the throat, lungs, etc. As seen here by tobacco

Many people start this habit because of peer pressure, family issues, anxiety and depression. Everyone knows that smoking causes cancer and it can shorten your life by 15 years or more. Smoking is a hard habit to break because tobacco contains nicotine which is a highly addictive stimulant. Teenagers smoke because they want to be cool. Many people who start smoking have a family member or close friend who smokes. Smoking leads to lung cancer, heart disease, strokes and wide variety of other diseases. Smokers experience more coughs and colds compared to non- smokers. Besides affecting oneself, it also has a negative impact on others around smokers which is known as second hand smoking. Also pregnant women who are exposed to cigarette smoke will have an increased risk of having a miscarriage or stillborn baby. There are over 4000 toxic substances in a cigarette. There are over 4000 toxic substances in a cigarette. They are arsenic, acetic acid, ammonia, butane, carbon monoxide and tar.

(“Nicotine and Tobacco: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia”) Users of nicotine will experience withdrawal symptoms two to three hours after the last time they smoked such as anxiety, depression, headaches, and drowsiness, difficulty sleeping, restless or frustration, making quitting this deadly drug extremely difficult. Other than nicotine there are over four thousand chemicals in cigarettes and more than sixty nine of these known chemicals are carcinogen. (“What’s in a Cigarette.”) Disgusting and extremely dangers chemicals are found in tobacco and cigarettes such as carbon monoxide, a poisonous gas that decreases the quantity of oxygen taken up by a individual's red blood cells, hydrogen cyanide, the poison used in gas chambers to kill soldiers during World War ll, cadmium, used in car batteries, butane, lighter fluid and tar, a brown and thick liquid that paralyses the cilia in the lungs. (“What's in cigarette smoke?”) If cigarettes were not accessible to the public, the addiction would not occur and the problems the thousands of life threating chemicals found in cigarettes would end.

It can be harmful to the body or it can be harmful to the people or surroundings of the abuser. It is a very big mistake to abuse alcohol. Abusing alcohol can lead to alcohol poisoning which can result death. Alcohol abuse can also cause someone to have short and long term effects to his brain and body (“Teenage Drinking”). A person who drinks too much alcohol is more likely to commit violent crimes such as assault, sexual assault, homicides, or even suicide (“Teenage Drinking”). Teenagers are usually heavy drinkers because they usually take drinking lightly. Underage persons do not drink as often as adults, but when underage drinkers drink, they drink a whole lot more at one time (“Teenage Drinking”). When teenagers drink alcohol they tend to binge drink. Binge drinking is when a teenager consumes too much alcohol in a short amount of time. This usually means five or six beers in only an hour or two. Binge drinking can cause harmful effects to the teen body, such as alcohol poisoning which can lead to serious injury or death (“Teenage Drinking”). Abusing alcohol can have short term as well as long term effects. These effects can be effects to the body or socially. Long term effects include family problems, having trouble in school, not getting as much done on the job, liver disease or nerve damage, or heart-related diseases (“Drinking and Driving”, Foundation). Some of the short term effects include slower reaction times, difficulty speaking to other people, feeling ill, throwing up, and headaches. The more dangerous short term effects can be difficulty breathing or passing out and not remembering what happened (“Drinking and Driving”, Foundation). If a teenager has used or abused alcohol he should not drive or perform any type of activity because this can be dangerous and put lives in

Alcohol can damage a teenagers health, brain and many other parts of the body as the years go by. “A 2002 article in the journal of studies on alcohol reported that alcohol may interfere with brain development in adolescents, resulting in mild mental impairment. Alcohol-induced changes in the structure or size of the hippocampus (a key part of the brain) may cause lifelong mental problems” (Youngerman, Barry). Another affect teenagers fail to realize is alcohol can be addicting. “When people ask what you hope to be when you grow up, no one will answer “an alcoholic”. But every year, teenagers who thought they could handle a few drinks fall into the trap” (Youngerman, Barry). Many people say they love how alcohol puts them in a daze, a carefree mindset. No one thinks a one time thing can end up becoming a lifestyle or how they function

Alcohol can really affect the growing and developmental process for teens. It can stop the brain from developing really hurting them for the future. It can also hinder the maturation of new brain constituents. This means that the connectors between the brain and nerve cells can stop developing and old ones can be torn apart (Spear). This can lead to a change in the brains thinking making teens more inclined to try risky behaviors. Also the prefrontal cortex is altered from drinking. This makes memory and rule

Alcohol has been severely damaging young individuals health both mentally and physically. Even though alcohol can be harmful at any age it is especially dangerous for teens as their brains are still developing and cannot cope with alcohol the same way as an adult can. When consumed

To begin let’s talk about the many, many health risks that are caused from smoking. I’ll start off with the biggest consequence smoking causes. Cancer. According to the CDC.gov website, nine out of ten lung cancers are caused from smoking cigarettes. And although lung cancer is the most common cancer associated with smoking, it is definitely not the only one. Smoking can cause cancer anywhere in the body. From the mouth to the colon, nothing is safe from cancer when you smoke. According to betobaccofree.gov, the chemicals in cigarettes harm your blood cells and damage your heart, increasing your likelihood of developing aneurysms, cardiovascular disease, Coronary heart disease, and strokes. Smokers also develop mouth sores and ulcers and as stated on deltadentalins.com, smokers are about 4 times more likely than non-smokers to develop gum disease. Smokers experience muscle deterioration because blood and oxygen are restricted and can’t reach the muscles.