Alcohol is a Central Nervous System depressant. French children drink wine from an early age. Germans drink beer from an early age. If drunk in moderation it is not too harmful. However, in the USA teenagers get drivers licenses at a very early age - 15. The combination of youthful inexperience, alcohol and a motor vehicle coupled with raging testosterone in the case of a teenage male and then you have a LETHAL combination.
Poor! Teenagers are unable to cope very well with excessive alcohol. It is damaging to the brain also which is developing fast at this time in their lives. Many thousands of teenagers end up in hospital each year because of uncontrolled access to alcohol. There is nothing wrong with a simple glass of wine etc but excessive drinking is dangerous for teenagers and anyone in fact.
65% because their are a lot of teenagers who are not really responsible in those situation, some of the teenagers force other teenagers to drink alcohol
Steroids are especially dangerous for teenagers because their growing bodies can be permanently damaged.
hipicrit
Of course not that's why it's alcohol.
Curiosity.
It can have negative legal consequences. However, consuming alcohol in moderation has never been proven to have negative health consequences for teenagers.
peer pressure
its ZERO
Propargyl alcohol
Very, very few teenagers consume alcohol on a daily basis in the U.S. and the proportion has been declining over time.
There pre-frontal cortex hasn't fully developed and leads them to have poor judment than a fully devolped cortex found in adults. While alcohol already effects judgment.