Alcohol+Awareness

For me alcohol was a natural part of life. Something that goes hand in hand with adulthood, I never thought about its damaging effects. As a child all I knew was that there was sober, and there was drunk. The commercials were always really pretty and it made me a bit excited for when it would be legal for me to drink. However, as I got older I learned more about the effects of alcohol. Alcohol affects your brain and body, and in teenagers it damages the mind. They become loners and all they care about is drinking. Young drinkers are much more affected than anyone else, but anyone who’s drunk will have no self control and say and do things that they normally wouldn’t do. There’s even statistics for the death rate of people between the ages of 15-24, that that’s actually the only death rate going up. Even though the experience of alcohol is dangerous, the hangover that follows is almost worse.



I don’t really have an urge to try alcohol. I’ve tried a sip of champagne or red wine, and even though the buzzy feeling is pretty cool, I feel a bit out of control. I laugh at something that isn’t funny, or can’t really gather all my thoughts efficiently. Sometimes a group of people goes out to drink and I stay at my home, because I don’t really want to participate in stuff like that. What I’ll do to avoid it is try to not go to these get-togethers, and be mature and just not drink. I know the effects of alcohol and I know how horrible it is. Because despite the disastrous nature of alcohol, media will always lie. Media will make it seem cool and sexy and popular. But it isn’t.



PS. Here's an Absolut ad that I really like: __ [] __ RESOURCES:

http://i.pinger.pl/pgr367/d39bf1e60004958f49d093c5/crazy-drunk-man.jpg

http://lifeincmyk.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/absolut91.gif

**THESE ARE THE VIDEOS: **

They are two commercials, but they're related, and they're too long. Sorry, I just felt I needed them both. And I don't know how to put them on, so I'm just posting in the links. Watch them in order. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJmqCKtJnxM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td_-syaHl2M