I can't understand how those things can happen thse days. Everybody knows their consequences, how they destroy the addict's health, mind, emotion stabilty and ruin his or her life. Everybody knows and teens can think, they are not stupid. Everyubody knows smoking is one of the causes of lung cancer.
When I was a teen, in the middle 60's, smoking was seen as something charming, elegant, and even macho. So. many boys smoked to fell grown up, to feel macho. But today no one this smoking or taking drugas is macho, or elegant or anthing good. I really can't understand
2007-05-10 11:08:00 · 16 answers · asked by Steiner 7 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Adolescent
Well i am a teen and i know firends who smoke and do drugs and ill tell you why. MOst of them have a screwed up home life, and they see drugs as a way out, and smoking as way to just have something to do. They tell me that drugs are fine they take me away and that smoking will help me reach death, anything is better than here. Kids just sometimes dont know how to deal with pain. But i also have friends who just do those things to look cool even though it isnt. Teens are just....teens.
2007-05-10 11:18:28 · answer #1 · answered by Sexylova49 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have been taking drugs for years. I started smoking cigarettes when I was 11 and first smoked weed when I was 12. I did Cocaine, Ketamine, Shrooms, DXM, Amphetamines and X all before my 16th birthday. I don't really have a reason for taking all those drugs other than I was bored with my life and wanted to have fun along with being very depressed and looking for any way to escape the emotional pain I was in. I was addicted to cocaine for a week but I have really good self control and haven't done it since (its been 2 years). As I get older I realize that drugs are over rated and pointless. I quit smoking pot since I think its stupid and childish now. I still smoke cigarettes and I have a new found passion for beer drinking.
2007-05-11 06:08:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, most teenagers who have low self esteem will do anything to be "cool". Since smoking is something, in their mind, that only "cool" people do, they decide that it's the perfect way to fit in and be cool.
Some teenagers get pressured into it and are afraid to say no to the people they think are their friends.
Teenagers never really think of the consequences of smoking and drugs. They think that they will just do it once to be cool and then never do it again but most of them can't stop. They do one more time and then one more until eventually they are addicted, but once they are older and dying of lung cancer or something, they really regret it!
2007-05-10 11:35:24 · answer #3 · answered by ♥Emily♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess I'm pretty good. No drugs, sex, cursing, etc. A little experimenting but I'm careful as ironic as that sounds. And you're not a loser for practically being a saint. It's good to focus on more important things than getting yourself involved in that stuff. Emma I'm 15
2016-05-20 00:09:22 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess that its just a feel cool type of thing, thats mostly all, or these kids grew up in a family with a lot of smokers, or drug addicts..... I've had friends in those situations, and its so hard for them to not give in to temptation, even though they see it ruining the lives around them.... I really dont know. Im a teen too, but, it never really made any sense to me, but its their bodies... :-(
2007-05-10 16:21:38 · answer #5 · answered by *country girl* 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Two words: Peer pressure. A lot of teens smoke/drink/do drugs because their friends do, and they want to fit in.
2007-05-10 12:30:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alot of it stems from bordem.
Most kids who do drugs ect, don't have anything better to do.
Also some times smoking and doing drugs is "the cool thing".
alot of kids are pressured into doing them.
2007-05-10 13:02:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peer pressure.
Their friends smoke and do drugs so they think it's cool to do it as well.
They think it will make them look cool.
They get called losers if they don't smoke, drink, do drugs, or the girls don't lose their virginity by the age of 14 years old.
They don't think nothing bad will happen to them.
Lack of morals.
They have parents who smoke, drink or on drugs so they think it's ok for them to do because their parents do it.
Music, and TV tell them to do it.
2007-05-10 11:32:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
as a teen myself...most teens don't smoke because it is disgusting...by high school the only people who smoke are the kids addicted already and most are trying to stop...
drugs however are much more popular...and i have no clue why...mainly pot
2007-05-10 11:13:59 · answer #9 · answered by essence of falling stars 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because it helps to cope with life. i take so much $hit for smoking, but i doubt i could go through the day without it. guess i've become too dependent.
2007-05-10 11:48:44 · answer #10 · answered by milan 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋