Reality Matters

Every day, teenagers are faced with millions of choices regarding their health, relationships, and life goals. This program focuses on the decisions kids make every day and highlights methods geared toward making the best ones possible.

With adolescence comes independence and the temptation to break the rules. When teenagers get a driver's license it opens the door to risk-taking. This program will look at some results that occur when kids take risks without considering the consequences. Some risky choices teens will be faced with are whether to drive safely, finish high school, lie or cheat, or treat others with consideration.

Record numbers of adolescents are hooked on tobacco, from cigarettes to smokeless tobacco. Through interviews with students, parents, doctors, and teachers, the program explores important themes: the selling of tobacco to a new generation of savvy adolescents, the rise in tobacco sales, and the struggle to get kids to stop using tobacco.