As someone who grew up in a different part of the world, I had access to alcohol, cigarettes and drugs. There was zero oversight from the state and people were pretty chill about it. My parents gave me the talk about it, let me try it - had my first beer when I was like 11 (imagine the outrage!!!) and nothing happened. I didn't turn into an alcoholic - alcohol does not even appeal to me to this day. Same with cigarettes. I could not afford to buy the drugs. Kids were sharing [low rez] porn on floppy disks in high school. Everyone knew what a dick and a vagina was, took sex ed, there were virtually zero teen pregnancies.