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Well, you're the one who said I was wrong. I was looking for you to provide something. We're free to harm oursleves, and I have not suggested otherwise. But I will add, a lot of these choices we make before we're adults. Few adults take up the habit. Children do. But that is another issue.
When I was a child I was told 'don't do drugs, don't drink, don't smoke . . . this is what happens' and thought 'hey - that's cool' and 'why not, because you don't want me to?' Who else thought that the 'drunk goggles' was just a load of fun on the playground? I did - that's or sure.
I think parents and others push against these things and it peaks the superior undying curiosity in every child - the moment they can; they'll try it to see 'why not' . . . It's not that they *try it* when they're children / teens; it's that when they're children/teens they're merely victims of their insatiable curiosity and fall prey to their own rebellious nature.
For those who don't have these issues = they wont' suffer the consequences.
For my kids I think the death of their cousin and their grandmother at the fault of drug-abuse was iodine on the wound of the 'need to know'