Answer: 1. What are the three main gateway drugs?

1.Nicotine

2.Marijuana

3.Alcohol

2. What are the harmful effects of gateway drugs?

-Drugs affect your body's central nervous system. They affect how you think, feel and behave.

3. What is cigarette smoking?

- Smoking, the act of inhaling and exhaling the fumes of burning plant material. A variety of plant materials are smoked, including marijuana and hashish, but the act is most commonly associated with tobacco as smoked in a cigarette, cigar, or pipe

4. As a teenager, how does drinking alcohol affect your health?

-Alcohol overdose causes even more severe depressant effects (inability to feel pain, toxicity where the body vomits the poison, and finally unconsciousness or, worse, coma or death from severe toxic overdose). These reactions depend on how much is consumed and how quickly.

5. How are youth affected by gateway drugs?​

Drugs can affect young people differently for many reasons. For example: Having less experience with a drug means a person is less likely to have developed a tolerance for it. The drug will have therefore have a greater effect.

-The social context (e.g. excitement at a party) in which young people take drugs has an influence.

-Since the brain continues to develop until a young person reaches approximately 18 years of age, they can be more vulnerable to the harmful effects of drugs.

Explanation:

A gateway drug is a substance that leads to the use of a more potent one. Marijuana has been labeled a gateway drug because people who use it often move on to use harder drugs that release a more intense feeling of euphoria. Alcohol and nicotine are also gateway drugs. Many adolescents start with alcohol and nicotine and eventually progress to more harmful drugs.