Say no to drugs – A message especially for children and teens

Many people suffer from the “addiction” of drugs; which means that no matter how hard someone tries to take them away from these drugs, it has become extremely hard to push them away from this bad habit of theirs.

A very popular drug is nicotine. It is found in cigarettes, chewing tobacco, and others. Nicotine addiction can cause diseases like lung cancer, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, cancer, stroke, heart disease, diabetes, and a whole list of almost incurable and potentially fatal diseases. These diseases are very prone to occur in people who consume drugs like nicotine found in cigarettes, chewing tobacco etc.

Alcohol is another kind of addiction, which also has killed millions of people. It heavily damages the liver, and literally burns and breaks it down. The liver is the organ of the body, which has over 500 functions, and so it is crucial to keep it healthy or else those 500 important functions that the liver does would prove to be the cause of fatality.

Putting health aside, let’s see that what bad effects these drugs have on our other important concerns. Not just our health, but drugs harm our wealth, and our financial situation. Let’s suppose that some drug causes just ₹20. Though many drugs cost millions, but let’s just start with a cheap one. This drug, costing ₹20, would cost you ₹600 in a month and ₹7,200 in a year, which indeed is a big amount. This was just with a ₹20 drug, so imagine how much money would say, a ₹2,000 drug would drain out of our pockets? It would cost ₹7,20,000 (INR 720,000), which indeed is a mindboggling amount. It’s almost $10,000 United States Dollars! Imagine what not you can buy with that amount, a new powerful computer, or even a brand new car; which you are just spending on your cigarettes, and other so-called “appeasements”.

Children and teens often take drugs as a dilemma of being “cool”. They say that those people who consume drugs are “cool”. This happens because many of their favourite movie actors, and other famous people who are liked by them, consume drugs too. But this being “cool” of theirs, makes them pay a huge price—their health, and also their and their family’s wealth and money. Being a teenager myself, I have observed this in other teens around me. As a teenager, I would recommend that if you are in a quest of truly being “cool”, do something innovative, and extraordinary; not something that can harm you and other people around you. Then you will be a real super cool person, not a drug addict.

Not only children and teens but also adults have this problem. They think of drugs as a part of their luxury and their luxurious lifestyle. In many movies and plays, rich people are often shown to consume tobacco, which even the adults around us try to mimic, and they also try to become like them, even after the movie or the play strictly says that drugs are harmful to us which we see every time we see a movie where drugs are consumed. Adult drug consumers think that drugs are a part of their “reputation”.

Drug addiction also shatters many families. In India and other parts of the world, drug-addicted people’s family likely becomes worse in living conditions because any money that they earn, is spent on drugs plus the drug-addicted member(s) of the people suffer from the diseases, the doctors also demand money to do their treatment.

Drugs are banned just because no country’s government in the world wants its people to die or become ill just because of their stupid habit. But still, drug smuggling is a thing that is making the will of the countries’ governments a false tale. And these people who smuggle drugs are only able to succeed because we are allowing them to do so.

If you are a teenager reading this article, I hope you will try to understand that this is surely a problem within us. We have to support the world in the future, not to break its social system, isn’t it so? So we should focus on doing something good rather than getting distracted by these kinds of distractions and traps. Our false beliefs about things like drugs can shatter our dreams into pieces. We will become good people and become an example to the people around us. We want to be an example to our family and support them to our fullest capability. And these things and habits of ours only prevent us from doing so. And so, the final motto of today is:

SAY NO TO DRUGS