It seems that neither advanced video games nor the allure of Facebook are capable of satiating teenage boredom any longer, which explains why some have found alternative and novel forms of amusement. For instance, 19-year-old Melissa Fontaine chooses to entertain her and a group of rambunctious rugby players by pulling her eyelids open and allowing shots of vodka to be poured into her left eye.
Termed vodka eyeballing, this trend has gained notoriety in student circles as the latest drinking craze. Unfortunately, the devastating long-term damage associated with this activity, including deteriorating eyesight, are not emphasized when inebriated frat boys goad one another into this foolish act.
Perhaps vodka eyeballing can be explained away by labeling it the perfect archetype of incomplete brain maturation typical during adolescence, but how do you explain a 2-year-old who smokes nearly 40 cigarettes a day? Meet Ardi Rizal, a Sumatran baby whose 30-year-old father gave him his first cigarette at 18 months old, and who has ceaselessly smoked ever since.
In a terse statement, ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross simply advises, Don t do these things.