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Underage drinking is a very serious problem in our culture that is affecting our world. In fact, there have been numerous deaths associated with underage drinking, which include driving under the influence, binge drinking, rapes, hazing, and simply poor judgment. Alcohol is a serious drug that impairs vision, motor skills, slows reaction time, and disables a person's ability to think clearly. Thus, it forces people to react in ways they would not normally and take risks that people usually regret the next day. Alcohol turns people into something they are not, something they do not aspire to be, yet those who start drinking underage usually do it to fit in with the "cool" crowd. Peer pressure has major influences in teenager's lives and why they turn to alcohol. There are many other influences other than peer pressure that influence underage drinking and those include stress, addictions in the family, the media, and freedom from not being under parental constraints.