Peer Pressure

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with friends and the sweater you love is considered out of style by your friends. Based on what your friends think, you will probably not buy the sweater.
Teens often give into because they want to fit in with their friends at all costs. As a child grows to become a young adult friends become more and more important, and have more influence on the decisions that a teenager will make. This makes them more susceptible to give into negative .1
A recent study was conducted on 2100 Canadian teenagers, ages 15-24. It asked the question, “what is the most important factor in your life?” The top things of importance were “friends” and “being loved.”2 This study proved how influential friends are and how important it is for teenagers to be loved and accepted.
Tim Shroeder, who works with teenagers in trouble, says that teens also need a sense of belonging and approval from the people around them. One of the most important things to a teenager is fitting in with the peers who they ...

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it’s cool and it will make you popular. Every day, three thousand teenagers start smoking, and almost one thousand of them will die because of it. The average teenager starts to smoke at the age of around fourteen, and right now there is about three million teenage smokers, who will probably become smokers as adults. The most disturbing fact that makes me wonder why people smoke, is that smoking causes more deaths per year than AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, murders, suicides, illegal drugs, and fires combined.5 I think the real reason teenagers smoke is because they see a few people smoking, so they assume that everyone else is, and if everyone else is they have to as well in order ...

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