What influences why people start drinking alcohol? How and why does peer pressure effect alcohol consumption? How and why does media effect alcohol consumption? How and why does stress effect alcohol consumption? How and why does family effect alcohol consumption? What is the leading factor that leads to alcohol consumption? Do some people have more then one of these factors effecting why they start drinking? How do these factors effect how much a person drinks? Do these factors lead to people becoming alcoholics? All these questions lead to the answer, that stress, heredity, the media and peer pressure are big factors on people's drinking habits. Also, that many of these people won't have positive results from giving into the media or peer pressure; going down the same path as their family; or by trying their problems of stress with alcohol. Many of these times the people may become alcoholics.
             First, does stress influence alcohol consumption? Yes, stress influences alcohol consumption. Stress is one of the leading factors to alcohol consumption. People feel they have to have a drink to relax. Many people will go home or to a bar and have a beer to relax after a long day.
             AHuman research to clarify the connection between alcohol and stress usually has been conducted using either population survey's based on subject self-reports or expiremental studies. In many but not all of these studies, individuals report that they think in response to stress and do so far a variety of reasons. Studies indicate people drink as a means of copingwith economic stress, job stress, and marital problems.
             This shows how stress causes people to start drinking. Also how people will feel overwhelmed by life and feel like alcohol is their one escape. This shows the many different problams people have that lead to their drinking.
             AMuch research demonstrates taht alcohol actually induces the stress response by stimulating hormone release by the hypothal...