Quote Originally Posted by dembethewarrior View Post
Peer pressure has always been about. Just different things, back then maybe more towards smoking and drinking than hard drugs. Why far less than now? Probably just made the news less, anything can make the news these days whereas back then you had tidy reporters and didn't need to fill up the pages with a "look who's been at court" section and you didn't need to have the paper filled up with all sorts.
Far more drugs about and far more desperate people about too.

Carrying of knives is now commonplace and I suspect the threat of a tragedy is greater.