This document discusses the challenges of smoking, alcohol, and drug use among teenagers. It notes that the main reasons teens smoke include peer pressure from friends who smoke and exposure to smoking parents. Smoking at a young age can lead to negative physical effects like decreased growth and mental effects like memory problems. Alcohol dependence among teens is influenced by heredity, environment, and family issues. Early alcohol use can cause teens to become chronic alcoholics within a year. Drug use stems from family and social problems, and peers who use drugs can replace family connections for teenagers seeking understanding.

1. Муниципальное бюджетное общеобразовательное учреждение
«Средняя школа №15 п.Кулой»
Unit 4 “Is it easy to be young?”
Students: Konovalova Daria, Belaya Maria, 10th form
Teacher: Grigorieva Victoria Alexandrovna

2. •Smoking
•Alcohol
•Drugs

3. According to the survey there are four
main reasons that motivate teens to
smoke:
•All my friends are smokers;
•I want to try;
•I want to look cooler;
•Smoking parents.

4. As you can see, the main reason is bad
influence. This influence is so strong that
about 70% of teen smokers say that they
started smoking under the pressure of their
smoking friends.
The second important reason is the
example of many adults who smoke in the
presence of children at home.

5. Facts about teen smoking:
•95,000 teens become daily smokers;
•The rise of the number of smokers among
teenagers fell to 90s;
•25% of teens aged 12 to 19 are smoking;
•Teenage smoking has become one of the
most urgent problems in the world.

6. Smoking at teen age leads to negative
consequences.
The physical effects include :
•Decrease in growth functions of the organism;
•Metabolic disturbance;
•Fast fatigue;
•Poor immunity;
•Intraocular pressure;
•Sight violations;
•Hearing disturbance.

7. Mental disorders :
•Violations of memory;
•Reduction of storing and acquisition of new skills;
•Concentration problems;
•Nervous breakdowns.

10. The reasons of alcohol dependence
among young people are:
•Heredity
•Environment
•Unhappy families
•Hypercritical guardianship
•Availability of alcoholic drinks

11. The child's body gets used to alcohol
several times faster than the adult
organism. Children, who have alcohol
dependence, become chronic alcoholics.
The child, who began to drink alcohol at
the age of 12-15, can become an alcoholic
during just one year.

12. Toxic influence of alcohol, first of all, affects the
activity of nervous system. Even small doses of
alcohol break nervous tissues and impulses.
The work of brain is broken. Alcohol drinks
have a bad effect of people`s stomach and
liver.

15. The reasons of drug addiction among
teenagers are :
•family problems;
•low level of education;
•influence of the people around;
•protesting actions against the family;
•internal fears, uncertainty;
•mental instability;
•lack of any occupations, hobbies.

16. Teenage drug addiction has some general
features:
• appearance changes;
•skin becomes pale or reddish;
•reddening of eyeballs;
•spasms, joint pains;
•behaviour changes;
•indifference to study.

17. Physiological features :
•carrying clothes with long sleeves;
•getting depressed;
•violation of sleep, meal;
•incoherent speech;
•violation of coordination movements;
•crumbling dark teeth;
•unhealthy appearance.

18. Often the cause of addiction in adolescence is
friendship with those who have experience with
drugs. Teenagers, who have difficulties in
communicating with their families, think that
such friends (addicts) understand them
perfectly and together with drugs can replace
family and school.

19. 70% of young people using drugs are
teenagers.
45% of boys and 18% of girls, who have ever
tried drugs, continue to use them!