Alcohol

Alcohol Alcohol and Teenagers: A Deadly Mix Most American teenagers drink some time during their high school career. Many see no harm in an occasional drink at a party. In fact many teenagers view alcohol as the “rite of passage into adulthood.” For this reason, teenagers are dying to drink alcohol. Unfair as the minimum legal drinking age may seem to eighteen-year-olds who feel they are adult enough to drink alcohol, teenagers are not yet mature and responsible enough to handle the effects of drinking alcohol. According to Crittenton Hospital’s records, fifty percent of all teenagers seen in the emercency room are from alcohol-related injuries (1). The average teenager takes their first sip of alcohol at the age of thirteen (Crittenton Hospital 1). This is really chilling because of all the harmful effect alcohol has on a young person’s body. Alcohol causes problems with the stomach, pancreas, liver and other internal organs. Not to mention what alcohol does to a person while drinking it. Alcohol causes blurred vision, bad breath, it makes a person’s face red and puffy, and it makes your stomach bloated. All those empty calories in alcohol can give a person what is called a “beer belly”. Alcohol alcohol, drinking, teenagers, age, police, underage, driving, college, students, problems, parents, drink, percent, officer, because, among, time, should, one, legal, laws, high, enough, drinkers, young, traffic, person’s, person, out, much, life, youths, yet, teens, teenager, teen