[Trepz]

What about the children who try to emulate professional athletes? That is what I'd consider the most important reason to ban the use of steroids. If children know that professional athletes can use steroids to enhance their abilities, children will obtain these steroids to enhance their performance. They do it now, if the use of steroids by professional athletes is not stopped, then their use by children will dramatically increase.

The damage done to adults can be severe. The damage done to children could be catastrophic. Do we really want children with superior physcial abilites who die in their teens or early twenties from the use of steroids, or any other banned or illegal substance?

[hobbes1]

What about the children who try to emulate professional athletes?

Hillary! is that you ?

[hobbes1]

If children know that professional athletes can use steroids to enhance their abilities, children will obtain these steroids to enhance their performance. They do it now, if the use of steroids by professional athletes is not stopped, then their use by children will dramatically increase.

Not if a responsible media pointed out that using anabolics at a premature ages, forces the growth plates to close early, stunting your growth... (odd how that most salient point is constantly missed in the reporting on this issue, isn't it?)