Do They Have To Drink?

.........From statistics in America, The UK and Australia on teenagers drinking all show that between 70% and 80% of teenagers have tried alcohol. This is a large number of teenagers which are not the proper age to drink alcohol. Drinking alcohol causes many problems, but why do teenagers like drinking? There are two main reasons that teenagers drink alcohol.
.........The first reason, they want to be part of their group. Teenagers think that it is easier to make friends if they drink alcohol. Also, alcohol makes teenagers feel less inhibited, they feel more comfortable to talk or do activities after a drink. Teenagers also drink just because other people are drinking. For many teenagers, it feels good to be doing what everybody else is doing. Some teenagers believe that drinking alcohol is the way to fit in with their group of friends and their friend will accept them if they drink alcohol. However, drinking just because everybody else is can lead to problems, especially if they are drinking too much.
.........The second reason is drinking alcohol is a symbol of being an adult. Teenagers are age that stuck between children and grown-up people. They need a symbol to show that they are already mature now. Alcohol may be the easiest choice. For example, when we were young, we saw our parent or many adults drink alcohol but they never let us tried it once. Alcohols are always forbidden for children. When people grown up to teenager, they have ability to buy alcohol for themselves, so they drink it. Some of teenagers proud of drink adult’s beverage. This lead to the thought of being free, do whatever they want and show that they can take care of themselves like their parents or a grown-up people.
.........Teenager is the complicated age of human. When this age comes, it means that you are nearly to be an adult soon but there a lot of new think you want to do and try. Drinking alcohol is a part of them. Some of them think alcohol will help them make friends and show that they are already grown-up. Teenagers can drink alcohol but they have to learn how to respond for the problem after drink too.

Numtarn and Pleng