Alcohol-Induced Activities Lead Teenagers to Drink Excessively (Thesis Sentence)

Linda Hanzek Hanzek 2

DeSalvo

Thesis Statement

December 22, 2008

Alcohol-induced Activities Lead Teenagers to Drink Excessively (thesis sentence)

Alcohol-induced activities range from quarters to wet t-shirt contests, from bellyshots to Girls Gone Wild. These activities are front stage and center in most watering holes. In recent years as alcohol consumption plays a major role in local bars, college parties, and even in private homes, teenagers find themselves infused in modified card games, like Truth or Dare, Poker, 21, and Spoons. Alcohol-induced activities are games that enhance a social gathering by requiring a participant to take a drink or a shot to get ahead. With those rules, come the unruliness of what alcohol can induce.

Alcohol-induced activities are enjoyable, as games are, which leads the inexperienced drinker to drink more and more. Because of the continuous drinking, an inexperienced drinker, such as a teenager, will continue to drink without limits, because it’s fun; it’s engaging. Drinking without limiting oneself will lead to poor judgments, like drinking and driving; worse off, it can lead to alcohol poisoning, which can end up fatal. However, there are far worse situations that can and have lead to damaging one’s self-esteem and self-respect.

In the Fall of 1984, I went to my first college party. There were sorority girls and frat boys and it was all so interesting! There were football players playing quarters and girls playing 21 with liters of tequila. They were laughing and having such a good time, noone, not even myself, paid attention when a girl who walked sideways got up from the couch we were all sitting on and headed toward a bay window on the 7th floor of the dormitory. The end result was horrific as we watched her try to walk through the window.

In that instance, it was frightful, and not that all drinkers behave that way. Unfortuantely, when teenagers drink, they will drink more if there are activities that keep them from thinking of their consumption. Young inexperienced drinkers , especially teenagers are more apt to drink without hesitation when games are involved. Thus, alcohol-induced activities lead teenagers to drink excessively, which can be detrimental to their lives and to the lives of others.