The media has an affect on youth today because the youths follow into their footsteps, they see them as leaders&role models. They wanna do what the celebrities does, when they see  them rap or sing they wanna do the same thing, so if they see them smoke or drink or do other drugs they wanna do that also because they think its ok to do it because their doing it too. Youths are very influenced by what they see on tv&everywhere else. They wanna do it to make them look cool or to fit in. So whatever you see don't try it because it will hurt everyone around you. For example, in the movie Friday it shows that one of the friends is pressuring the other friend because he doesn't have a job or anything &he tells his friend to smoke& he doesn't want to but he reminds him that he doesn't have anything better to do, so he just smoked it.