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Originally Posted by Tasaio 
What absolute rubbish.
You don't have to know what a hangover feels like to know that alcohol intake destroys brain cells and causes catastrophic liver damage.
You don't need to try LSD, ecstasy or heroin to learn why they're dangerous. Are you honesty telling me you wouldn't warn kids off serious drugs because you haven't experienced them yourself?
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Having experienced so-called 'serious' drugs, I would tell kids to do their research and then make up their own minds. You can't dictate to people, you can only inform them.
Heroin is an incredibly addictive drug that helps shut down the nervous system. LSD is something that most people would only want to do once or twice.
Most drugs are addictive to a greater or lesser extent (except for psilocybins) but people with an addictive personality WILL find something to become addicted to until they understand and take steps about their own inclinations. Equally, there are people who can try a drug a few times from curiosity, and then never return to it. There's people who have had valuable, life-changing experiences or had a shift to a different consciousness level (especially from the hallucinogens) and there's people who have destroyed their lives completely. Drugs can be very powerful, and that can be both beneficial as well as harmful.
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Interestingly, there are minute amounts of alcohol in Coke Cola. But I wouldn't worry about that amount destroying brain cells.
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No - but you might want to worry about all the other chemicals in coke.
Do your research.
In fact, soft drinks are quite addictive in their own right, and sugar used in that way I reckon is a lot like a 'drug' - you get a 'sugar high' and a 'sugar crash'. You set yourself up for future health problems - and yet people regularly give it to very young children.
I am NOT advocating that people go out and get wasted, nor am I suggesting that jamestl2 should drink anything if he doesn't want to. But reading about the chemical effect of alcohol on the brain does not equate to understand why people enjoy getting drunk. The occasional glass of wine or organic ale/cider is not going to kill you - and it can be a pleasant and harmonious experience. Going out and drinking thirty pints and ten shots will land you in the hospital and in serious danger. Drinking to get drunk every night will do the same thing in the end.
In much the same way, occasional consumption of sugar is fine, and can be tasty, but excessive consumption of sugar is addictive, bad, and sets you up for obesity and diabetes. Eat too much sugar, and you'll be sick.
All things in moderation :P