The teen brain enjoys instant gratification and its immaturity makes it more prone to repetitive behaviour and addictions. Please discuss some of these potential dangers with your teens: 1. Smoking- lung damage, predisposition to various cancers, vascular disease, heart attacks… the list of the damaging effect of smoking is endless. Apart from that it’s just selfish for other to have to inhale poison because of your habits. Children suffer. Asthmatics suffer. Just . Don’t. Ever. Start. It’s actually pretty uncool these days 2. Vaping- a teenage disaster. Punted as healthier than smoking, this has become a multi-billion dollar industry, basically based on lies, and poorly regulated. Inhaling damaging chemicals with largely unknown long term side effects, inhaling food chemicals/fragrances which are not meant to be heated up and inhaled…no wonder this has led to an epidemic of teens and young adults with a mysterious lung disease, deaths, lung transplants. Just…