### person:

Teenager
* Every teenager knows smoking is bad and smoking causes cancer.
* Living with teenagers can sometimes be like living in another world.
* Many teenagers are concerned about losing or gaining weight
  - with losing or gaining weight
  - sexually active
  - uncomfortable discussing contraception with parents, partners, and peers
  - begin smoking to feel grow-up
  - choose to have babies for men who are twice their age
  - die as passengers in motor vehicles
  - smoke because they feel more adult
* More teenagers die from car crashes than die from diseases, or homicides, or suicides.
* Most teenagers are interested in girls, driving, and other healthy hobbies
  - carry pictures of friends, or their car, or family members in their wallets
  - construct a lasting sense of self through both engagement and separation
  - eat food
  - grow up in different environments in the world
* Some teenagers avoid school out of fear of their peers
  - believe that experimenting with drugs part of growing up
  - carry their own cell phones
  - drink cocktails which mix two or three or more nips of different spirits together
  - engage in anti-social behavior in order to attract attention to themselves
  - even shoplift in gangs to see who can steal the most
  - have more problems during adolescence than others
  - lose weight
  - make their bedrooms into shrines to rock stars
  - only drink or get drunk at social and sports events
  - smoke cigarettes
  - worry too much about their weight and starve their bodies
* also have a sense of invulnerability
  - say that smoking way to relieve stress, stay thin, and a way to fill time
* are also disproportionately victims of violent crimes
  - less likely than younger children to have a usual source of medical care
  - more likely to drink and drive
  - at a higher risk for pregnancy complications
  - capable of smoke cigarettes
  - citizens of the United States
  - human beings, capable of making informed decisions about their own bodies
* are located in high schools
  - malls
  - nightclubs
  - roofs
  - more likely than adults to suffer medical complications attributable to childbirth
* are more likely to commit suicide if a gun is available
  - participate in many types of sporting activities than other age groups
  - much less likely to smoke than adults
  - one of the fastest growing groups of users on the internet
  - people who express a burning desire to be different by dressing exactly alike
  - still less likely to commit suicide than any older age group
* are the economic engine that fuels the world
  - hottest consumer demographic in the United States
  - largest source of transplant organs in the United States
* are the only age group in which smoking levels continue to increase
  - known mammals that wake up asleep
  - well known for experimenting with all sorts of risky behaviors
* can be particularly sensitive about their weight and appearance
  - the cruelest people in the world
  - have difficulty falling asleep until late at night and awakening early in the morning
* commonly think that there's is the first generation to reach puberty.
* comprise a significant proportion of victims of unsafe abortion.
* consume sugar.
* develop colds about as often as adults do-two to four times a year.
* die in motor vehicle crashes at twice the rate of the rest of the population.
* drive excessively at night and have a significantly higher nighttime crash fatality rate.
* eat fast food
  - junk food
* feel presence.
* generally suffer acne mainly due to a zinc deficiency.
* get acne because of all the hormones that come with puberty
  - into trouble
* have grow pain
  - senses
* have the highest alcohol-involved fatal accident rate of any age group
  - death rate of any age group in motor vehicle crashes
  - suicide rate of any age group
  - to be told that sleeping is as important as eating and breathing
* hear causes.
* includes arms
  - body substances
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - heads
  - legs
  - necks
  - nuclei
  - personality
  - plasma membranes
  - sections
  - vacuoles
* kill or attack other children, teachers at school, their own parents, or homeless people.
* learn about evolution.
* like food.
* need calories
  - extra calories
  - more calories
* often collect and wear objects that have symbolic and metaphoric meaning
  - fail to recognize the symptoms of depression in themselves or in other people
  - hold onto things, including anger, for a long time
  - travel in packs
  - use drugs to cope with the challenges of adolescence
* reach ages.
* seek attention.
* seem to be biologically programmed to stay awake later than adults.
* sleep at different times from adults.
* sometimes like to feel and to behave like adults.
* start jobs.
* struggle with issues of identity, independence, competency and social role
  - violence, crime, drug abuse, and immorality
* to gain weight.
* use alcohol, tobacco and analgesics more than other drugs.
+ Fashion, Clothing fashions
  * Fashion is a way to express one's self. Many teenagers show their ideas and opinions by the way they look. They may want to look unique and individual, often to be a member of a group which looks unique. It helps people to make their first opinion of you and can influence the opinions and ideas of other people.
+ The Sims 2, Changes: The Sims :: 2004 video games
  * An additional young adult stage is added when you get the University expansion pack. Sims can now grow up and eventually die. In the first game, Sims would stay children forever and adults would stay adults forever. Teenagers can hold jobs as well as go to school.