I’ve been seeing the thread title for a few days, and just now I remembered a drug-prevention film we saw in the early-‘70s. The idea was that a lot of teens and young people started wearing rings in their noses. (As if that would ever happen! ) These were fairly large rings, like you see in bulls’ noses. The obvious analogies was that a lot of kids use drugs (‘wear nose rings’) due to peer pressure, and that using drugs was like being led around by the nose by the people who got you hooked. I recall an interview (?) scene where someone asks, ‘Why would kids do this? Why would they want to have a ring in their nose?’ Mr. Sleezy Guy says, as nearly as I can recall, ‘You can sell anything if you market it right.’
So the message was ‘Be your own person. Don’t bow to peer pressure. Don’t look stupid. Don’t let rich Marketing Types lead you around by the nose so that you’ll give up your individuality and make them rich.’ I think I saw this film about the same time the school showed us Future Shock (1972), or maybe a year or two earlier.
I’m not sure if it was late 70s or early 80s - probably early 80s - but I remember this film where inner city kids were doing something. It all seemed so foreign to me. We had no black kids in our school and these kids lived in run down apartments. It was like nothing I had ever seen and really had no concept of what they were talking about.
I think they talked about all the bad things about drugs - so it didn’t seem like much of a dilemma - they might have well showed a film entitled “don’t shoot yourself in the face”. I’m pretty sure my parents didn’t grasp the subtle concept of peer pressure - cause they actually tried role playing with me - which consisted of my mom and dad saying something like “what are you chicken?”
I remember being confused about “peer pressure” cause the only “peer” I knew about was the “pier” where my grandfather kept his boat to go crabbing. I didn’t really get what that had to do with these so called drugs.
We had a drug education program when I was in high school, some time in the '60s. (Note: I am not so old I don’t remember what year I graduated but I don’t remember which year they had this program.)
The very sincere Officer Friendly who conducted this mentioned various drugs but he was particularly concerned about glue sniffing and glue sniffers. Only he didn’t say “glue sniffing” or “glue sniffers.” He said “snue gliffing” and “snue gliffers” pretty regularly. Some people remembered it as being every single time. By the end of his rant about snue gliffing we were practically hypoxic with suppressed laughter. Some people had gone so far as not to suppress it, but these were the bad boys of the class.
Most of us went on to never, ever gliff snue. This is pretty much what most of my classmates remember, and nothing else about the program.
I was born in 1961, and when I was a little kid, my friends and I bought and built a lot of the old AUrora plastic model kits, which we put together with model glue, of course.
We thought that stuff smelled awful, and wouldn’t have sniffed it for all the money in the world. In fact, we nevr would have thought of it if the local stores hadn’t been forced to ban it and if we hadn’t gotten a bunch of well-meant lectures about never sniffing glue.
I remember innocent 2nd and 3rd grade classmates sniffing Elmer’s glue, solely because the well-meant lectures got them curious!
) These were fairly large rings, like you see in bulls’ noses. The obvious analogies was that a lot of kids use drugs (‘wear nose rings’) due to peer pressure, and that using drugs was like being led around by the nose by the people who got you hooked. I recall an interview (?) scene where someone asks, ‘Why would kids do this? Why would they want to have a ring in their nose?’ Mr. Sleezy Guy says, as nearly as I can recall, ‘You can sell anything if you market it right.’