2. Ever done something you didn't want to
do, just to fit in?
Or just because your
friends wanted you to?
That's peer pressure
3. Peer pressure refers to the influence exerted
by a peer group in encouraging a person to
change his or
her attitudes, values, or behaviour in order
to match group norms.
4. Peer Pressure
Helps you to achieve Results in a bad habit
something or improve or even a tragedy
yourself
Good Peer Pressure Bad Peer Pressure
5. Number of Students in Grade 10 who have tried
Alcohol due to Peer Pressure
Tried
Not Tried
8. Brunelle, Lynn. "Peer Pressure POWER." Current Health Kids 35.1 (2011): 6-8. Health
Source - Consumer Edition. Web. 4 Feb. 2012.
http://www.familyfirstaid.org/peer-pressure.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/3354/Resource_Center/Virtual_Library/Peer_Pressure/peer
.htm
Editor's Notes
The Adolescent Substance Abuse Knowledge Base reports that right around 30% if teens are offered drugs in middle school and high school.According to the National Household Survey on Drug Use and Health from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 74.3% of high school students have tried alcohol.3.1 million teenagers smoke, according to the American Lung Association.
