If my best friend in the whole world comes up to me and asks: 'Hey what's up? Want a cigarette?" What should I do? Deputy Rieder taught me just that.

My first option is to use the cold shoulder. That means to just ignore the person. No matter what they tell me, just ignore them. For example: Joe goes over to Bob. Joe says "Hey Bob, want a cigarette?" Bob doesn't say anything and walks away. That is cold shoulder.

My next option is called broken record. Using broken record means to just keep saying no. An example: Fred goes over to Greg. Fred says, "Hey Greg, want to go to Sam's party on Saturday? There's going to be beer. "

" No." says Greg

" Oh come on! We’re going to have so much fun!

" Nope." Greg says again.

The last and probably best option is to just walk away. The longer I stick around, the harder it will be to get out of it. If someone offers me drugs the best thing to do is walk away.

Now that I have learned a bunch of ways to say no to say no to drugs,

I know that I can stay drug free!

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