Our teen years should be the best 10 years of our life. Why are we rushing into adulthood when our mind and body aren't ready? Now a days I see teenagers of my age and younger smoking, taking drugs, having sex etc. Of course we have to experience these actions someday but when you are at the age of 12-16 these acts should not be done! Your body doesn't fully develop until the age of 21 and 22 yet I see gangs of young teens destroying there body's.It is estimated that each year around 207,000 children in the UK start smoking, 46.8% have had sexual intercourse and 10,123 teens between the ages of 13 to 18 have had drinking and drug habits. 

 

I'm not blaming teens completely, it's the peer pressure and persuasion from there older friends and siblings that torment them into these habits, I have been peer pressured in all of these situations before but I have resisted because I know the long term effects and how easily addictive these are. In conclusion this world today is a bad influence to us all due to the thousands of teens destroying there lives and messing up their futures because of a stupid mistake they came upon at a young age.  every time you are offered anything that could potentionally be bad remember that you have another 70 years or so to experiment with these acts, our teenage years transform us to the people we are for the rest of our lives.