Drinking

Oh my god you are such a baby you can’t even drink a can of beer without throwing up. Peer pressure is what makes you do something that you don’t want to do such as drinking.   Teens are the spring of adolescents abusing alcohol, but for Joe drinking was a fun past time to kill time.   Joe never thought about what the consequences can be because at school he had a good reputation for best partier and that distracted him to think about the future consequences.   In Lynn Ponton’s The Romance of Risk, teen adolescences find alcohol as a good way to soothe and relieve pain, but she also says that alcohol is the gateway substance that can lead to other heavier drugs and risky business.   She also says that parents play a big role behind why teens would drink.   Ponton’s interpretation of Joe’s experience can be argued because most teenage adolescents now a day’s put their own lives at risks because of alcohol and brings worry to their family.  
There are numerous ways to find alcohol for teens.   There are older brothers and sisters of friends that will buy it for you or you could just ask some random person that walks out of the liquor store to buy you some. “When teens want to drink, they seem to be able to get alcohol. And often, adults supply it” (state legislature 11).   Those are a couple of ways for teens to get alcohol, but the easiest is to go to parties that have a ton of alcohol where nobody even checks for age because its self serve.   Adults should not buy alcohol for teens even if there your own child or someone else’s because adults are mature and know what’s right from wrong.   In Joe’s case he would get his alcohol from friends and this is how they would pass their time.   “Joe and his buddies would have a beer or two just to take the edge off things after their hard day at the local high school” (Ponton 205).   He was simply bored and wanted to kill time until his parents got home from work.   This goes for most of the teens that use alcohol to pass their time...