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Popular youths drinking soda inspire peers
It seems that when young people see their popular friends drink soda instead of alcohol, they are likely to follow suit. Hanneke Teunissen of the Radboud University in Nijmegen found that "adolescents were more influenced by popular than unpopular peers. Interestingly, the anti-alcohol norms of popular peers seemed most influential in that adolescents were less [...]