Не думаю, что родителям понравится это, но большинство подростков понимают, что в конечном счете их жизнь в их собственных руках. Мы все принимаем глупые решения. Говоря только о себе, могу сообщить, что большинство моих ошибок — результат невежественных выборов. Поэтому может показаться, что если бы у меня была «машина времени для исправления ошибок», единственным способом исправить их было бы вернуться назад и принять уже грамотные решения. Возможно, я что-нибудь напортачил бы снова, но, по крайней мере, я бы знал, что делаю. Рассказывая нам об опасностях курения и употребления алкоголя, вы позволите нам услышать от вас то, что мы не слышим от друзей или из средств массовой информации. Тем самым вы подарите нам мощный инструмент — способность видеть полную картину, иметь перспективу, которые дадут нам возможность принимать правильные решения, касающиеся нашей жизни.

As in the case of drugs, we do not muchWe understand the relative influence of alcohol and nicotine, and knowledge will help us to avoid anything stupid. The path of self-knowledge is often through trial and error. But the problem is that you have to pay for the mistakes. Above some errors can later laugh with friends. But with alcohol and cigarettes, everything is different. Their experience by example - a very dangerous thing.

And again: very much depends on the information that you will carry to us and that will save us from error. But it is not very easy to solve such a problem with us, young people, because we are absolutely sure that we know everything, and all you need to know. Therefore, not enough just to give statistics and facts that is a consequence of alcohol, and that - smoking. Most likely, your daughter will not believe what you say. But if you have worked facts in meaningful dialogue (that word again), and will not be easy to quote them, as if reading from a website, you are more likely to attract the attention of a teenage daughter. And then you can talk about what she thinks about it, and her answers may surprise you greatly.

Fact. Cigarettes contain nicotine - a drug that causes a very rapid habituation. However, referring to the American Lung Association, in which also includes:

• • Acetic acid: used in hair dye;
  

• • Acetone: the main component of inks and fluids for removing nail varnish;
  
• • Ammonia: toxic gas and a strong detergent;
  
• • Arsenic: a strong poison used for baiting rats;

• • Benzene: a toxin found in naphthalene, which may not be used in solvents;
  
• • Cadmium: highly toxic chemical used in automotive batteries and coating of metals by electrolysis;
• • Carbon monoxide: poisonous gas that destroys red blood cells;
• • Formaldehyde: liquid with a pungent unpleasant odor, used in the embalming of corpses;
  • hydrazine: used in fuel for aircraft and missiles;
• • hydrogen cyanide poison used in gas chambers by the Nazis during the executions;
  • Nickel: applied during electrolysis;
  • pyridine: repellent for dogs;
• • Toluene: poisonous industrial solvent, is forbidden in the composition of fluids for removing nail varnish.
  

  
  

  I knew that in the nicotine include harmful chemicals, but I did not know what it is.
  

  Greg, 15 years, Tucson, Arizona.
  

  
  

  Fact. According to the American Cancer Society, cigarette in America kills more people than alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, and at the hands of murderers and synthetic drugs.
  

  Yes, of course, there is some truth to people who smoke constantly. I'm going to quit when will do in college.
  

  Fran, 16 years old, Talbot, Maryland.
  

  Fact. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, teenage smokers are eight times more likely to move on to marijuana and cocaine.
  

  Whatever was said, smoking does not makechildren using drugs just teens who take them, in addition to everything else, and smoking. I smoke, but I know that I will not take drugs because they do not want this.
  

  Sally, 17 years, Gainesville, Florida.
  

  Fact. How much cigarettes are addictive? 40% of regular smokers teenagers trying to quit smoking, and could not, according to the American Osteopathic Association.
  

  I bet they smoke more than I do. I can stop as soon as I want to.
  

  Harris, 14, of Corpus Christi, Texas.
  

  Fact. According to distributors of cigarettes through the networkorder, recent studies have shown that the former heavy smokers teenage boys as adults, to thirty years begin to suffer from impotence or experiencing weak erections.
  

  What? It can not be ... I hope it is not so. Bay, I never heard about it.
  

  Joy 15 years, Saluda, South Carolina.
  

  Fact. How hard to overcome nicotine addiction? According to the Food and Drug Administration of the United States, even among adults who expressed a strong desire to quit smoking, and received optimal medical support, only half of patients surveyed were able to give up the habit, and even then only a week. 80% of smokers are back to tobacco once stopped taking nicotine substitutes.
  

  I never thought that nicotine is so strong. I think that's why people are so hard to quit smoking.
  

  Bobby, 16 years, San Diego, California.