So You Think You Are Going To Live Forever

Everyone thinks that none of the stories they hear will happen to them. They think they are invincible. “So You Think You Are Going to Live Forever?” is a presentation by Officer Pete Collins to a group of high school students. It was taken in 1990 to lower the level of those who drink and drive. Sadly, the rate of drinking has gone up. In this essay, it will explain what beer commercials don’t. Alcohol is advertized every day. They are the leading category in commercial advertisements today. However, there is so many things alcohol and beer advertisements don’t mention. Like the many lives it has take, young and old, or how it robs yourself of your own decisions. When alcohol is running through one’s bloodstream it paralyzes their ability to make decisions for themselves. Alcohol robs the bloodstream of oxygen. Your body and brain need lots of oxygen to function properly. The lack of oxygen results in speech and behavioral changes. They cannot think for themselves. Imagine you can’t think and you mix that with driving. The
That is tremendously wrong. You have the same chances of getting in a wreck when you are not drunk then when you are. There has already been 244 deaths due to drunk driving just this year. Drinking affects every one of us, regardless of whether we chose to drink or not. You probably were not drinking, but the reckless driver that crashed into you was. Other peoples actions and chooses affect you just as much as your own chooses affect you. One person is killed every half hour due to drunk driving. Each year approximately 16,000 are killed. Alcohol is a factor in almost half of all traffic fatalities. Every other minute a person is seriously injured in an alcohol related crash. YOU can prevent this by just not drinking while driving. That is why everyone should help spread the word to not drink and drive. You never know, it might even save our life and also your loved