Smoking and drinking

Many young people think that smoking and drinking is essential to have a good time and share happiness with friends because when they do it they don´t know what they do, they aren´t conscious when they are victims of alcohol. Furthermore, they do things which the day after they don´t remember. Can anyone have a good time if later don´t remember anything? It´s impossible. Unfortunately, the majority of modern teenagers don´t be conscious of all these.

In contrast with other countries, in Spain teenagers start to drink or smoke with 14-15 years. It´s an age very difficult, because they aren´t children but neither adults. They want to go to partys and do binge drinking. When they start they aren´t addicted still, even a lot of them smoke or drink only to make friends, to be one more in the group of friends and don´t be the weirdo. A cause of these, teenagers are strangly infuenced by their group of friends. It´s true that the parents are an influence too. Many of them always used to demand high standars of their children without go out for example. When these children go out, they are worst than other children that have gone out more frequently.

As I see it, there are many different ways to stay healthy and to have a good time. “Growing up” means stop being children phisically and mentally of course. Spain must be more strict when sell alcohol to minors. And, finally, everyone must be conscious that our acts in each moment in our life.