This is what, in the opinion of several hundred teenagers, you should know, when you talk to them about alcohol and cigarettes.

Mom says that I never in my life should not drink. Yes, that's impossible. I'm not saying that I was going to become an alcoholic. But foolish to think that I will not drink at all.

Джейсон, 15 лет, Нью-Рошелль, Нью-Йорк.

My father was very strict with me; he always wants to beconfident that »I keep away from trouble.» He never lets me sip of wine, and a heart attack will happen to him if he sees me with a cigarette in his mouth. But when I go to parties or just hang out with friends, I drink and smoke as I want, and the father of anything does not know.

Null, 15 years, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

I am absolutely sure that my parents do not want to,so I drank or smoked. But they can not do anything to stop me. If I want a drink, I drink, I want to smoke - to smoke, and not want to, then I will not do it.

Jerome, 16 years, Blaine, Washington.

I do not take dangerous drugs, drink or only smoke weed. Not that it was difficult to get the booze, the funny thing is that for me is much more difficult to get a beer, than take bong debt.

Katya, 14 years, Manassas, Virginia.

We can always do what we should not haveI would do. Teenagers are very cunning. They can get that anywhere, if they have the connections and money (difficulties arise only with the acquisition of money). And if your child is not John Travolta from the movie »Under the hood», you will not be able to keep it under supervision and keep from smoking and drinking. The fact that Katie rights: the law complicates the purchase of cigarettes and alcohol, but in reality from the »difficulties» to »funny as simply» just one small step. The teenager, who looks like an adult can buy all the fake documents worth fifty dollars. And those who are still young, there are adult friends, or they are more creative in the search.

My friend and I are standing around a liquor store andoffer someone money, so we bought something. Usually we are denied, but there will always be a tough guy, which a few bucks on top of all buy what we want. In the same way we buy cigarettes; it is so simple.

Tom, 14, Albert Lea, Minnesota.

My grandmother smokes, so, when I come to it, I always gently drags her pack. I do not think it will ever notice it.

Carrie, 12 years old, Kennedeyl, Texas.

My mother and father did not drink, so we do not have in the housealcohol, but I have friends whose parents do not indulge in this. So when I go to them, I bring a bottle from under the water. I ask them a little liquor for himself. It all depends on who I'm asking. Usually, I'm allowed to pour himself.

Gandhi, 15 years, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Законы в большинстве своем не отвращают нас от алкоголя и табака, а вынуждают быть более изобретательными при их приобретении. Это очень важно, потому что из различных интервью я узнал, что родители совсем не разговаривают с подростками о курении и спиртных напитках. Они полагают, что их дети защищены от них буквой закона, пока не достигли совершеннолетия. А став взрослыми, они поймут сами, как относиться к ним. Но, как мы только что выяснили, это слишком далеко от реальности. Существует определенная истина в поговорке «Блаженно неведение». Но, когда мы обсуждаем такую проблему, как употребление алкоголя и табака, которые оказывают пагубное воздействие на вашу жизнь и здоровье, больше подойдет другой вариант: «Неведение — риск». Риск в результате неверного истолкования.