Alcohol And The Media

Alcohol And The Media

Antonio Pargas
  Alcohol and the Media
Every day, on average, 11,318 American youth try alcohol for the first time, compared with 6,488 for marijuana; 2,786 for cocaine; and 386 for heroin. It is used everywhere around the world including religious ceremonies, during social events, and all other types of occasions. Besides caffeine, more people drink alcohol than any other substance. It comes in all sorts of colors, shapes, and recipes like beer, wine, and hard liquor. It has been rewarded, blamed, accepted, and banned in the past 100 years. The effects of alcohol are countless.
Drunk driving accidents and alcohol syndrome, you can develop disease, and have an increased chance of sexually transmitted disease, alcohol is definitly not healthy. It kills 250,000 people every year, 500 people are killed each week in alcohol related accidents, and one American life is lost every 20 minutes in alcohol related auto crashes. It is a leading cause of accidental death. Two million alcohol impaired driving collisions occur each year.
Teen alcohol abuse is a problem in our country. Thirty-four percent of all high school seniors have had a drink in the past month. In middle schools, 6 million students admit they have been drunk And most of teenagers who drink can purchase their own beverages. Even worse, people who begin drinking before age fifteen quadruple their chances of developing alcoholic tendencies. Knowing this, the fact that 38.1% of children age fourteen has had a drink is quite disturbing. Everyone admits that it is a problem, and how widespread and dangerous it is, but no one really resolves the problem today’s society.

There are many different excuses and bad reasons people use for alcohol. They blame it on parents, bad teaching, and mostly peer pressure. Something had to first influence their peers to influence them. A saying that most parents say that “kids are probably going to drink if their parents do” is also used, but what influences the...