I'm 14... and my friends drinks coffee a lot. I am guilty as charged also... I cant say I havent walked into Starbucks a couple times with them. But how and why did coffee become the teenage thing to do?
2006-07-22 16:14:32 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Non-Alcoholic Drinks
I know when I was younger, the reason I got into drinking coffee because it was something cheap to do (about $2 incl. tip) and I could sit in a diner for hours at a time and hang with my friends and just drink lots and lots and lots of coffee :)
Now coffee makes me feel really yucky and dehydrated so I stick with tea
2006-07-22 16:20:14 · answer #1 · answered by PennyPasta 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If they need to stay up for long periods of time, coffee seems like the cheapest & most easily obtained substance to help. Also, the advertisers at Starbucks work very hard in order to give themselves a trendy & hip 20-something, mature-but-in-touch-with-youth image... and many teenagers are playing right into their hands.
Kudos to you for not following the crowd. Decide if you like the taste of coffee, then act on that =)
2006-07-22 16:18:33 · answer #2 · answered by veinposeur 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Caffeine is the most popular, least regulated drug in the world, so everyone is in a race to see how many products they can cram caffeine into. Starbuck's puts up a couple shops a day, and each shop makes about a million a year. Selling unregulated worldwide additions is a super business. Expect more.
2006-07-22 16:24:28 · answer #3 · answered by Cowboy Cartoonist 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I started drinking tea when I was 14.
My daughter started drinking coffee when she was 14 and found that it helped her asthma.
She was diagnosed with it about then and the Doctor said for her, in her case, a cup of coffee in the morning would be good for her.
But check with your Doctor if that is why you are going to start drinking it.
Everyone is different, and only a Doctor can tell you if it is right for you if you have asthma.
2006-07-22 16:22:28 · answer #4 · answered by Here I Am 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I can say that our State govenor Jennifer Granholm recently raised and complicated all of Michigan school requirememnets and college requirements for graduation to be avaliable. From this The teens here are strssed and tired from staying u later and studying longer and harder and the whole chain that this caused resulting in them drinking coffee to stay awake or even alive in some cases.
2006-07-22 16:35:33 · answer #5 · answered by clarinetgenius12 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because either mommy and daddy drank it, or because of the trend in the late 90's when so many people when to coffee bars to hang out. Cappuccino's, latte's. It's STILL kind of the thing, it's just no longer talked about as much. Makes you feel a little grown up without filling your lungs with asphalt tar and nicotine, doesn't it?
2006-07-22 16:20:03 · answer #6 · answered by Josh 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well it depends on the area, but most teenages down under (where I live) live for alcohol and soft drink. Not everyone is drinking coffee, it depends on each person were all different.
2006-07-22 17:17:29 · answer #7 · answered by Stay-funny 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It always has been honey. This is nothing new. Every generation thinks they're always the "first" to do things. But coffee (and sex, and drugs, and smoking, and "new" music) have been around almost as long as humanity!
2006-07-22 16:19:05 · answer #8 · answered by LindaLou 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because teens have alot more stress now a days so some resort to cofee instead of drugs
2006-07-22 18:41:56 · answer #9 · answered by Jassy B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live on the stuff during the school year. there isn't enough time in the day.
2006-07-22 16:22:54 · answer #10 · answered by Dillon R 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋