1. Context and Assumption of the Dispute
a. After reading many articles about the subject of sports and how they keep teenagers out of trouble, I begin to see both sides of the argument. For the arguments saying sports don’t keep teenagers out of trouble, they state that the more aggressive the sport they are in the more they are involved in high risk behavior, such as drug and alcohol use. As I kept researching and reading the different studies …show more content…
In this survey I had read about how being involved in organized sports teams didn’t matter when it came to alcohol and drug use in high schools. They had mentioned that males and females although had lower odds of smoking tobacco while in sports than non athletes, that there were still students persuaded by peer pressure to try tobacco. For alcohol consumption the survey concluded that males who had participated in two or more sport teams had greater odds of consuming alcohol than non athletes and females who were involved in sports teams had greater odds of consuming alcohol or binge drinking than non athletes. [4] Dunn had concluded that “As the number of sports team played on increased, the percentage of students using smokeless tobacco increased.”