Why does the badge ask about harmful substances?

To understand how avoiding them affects risk now and later.

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  1. To encourage trying them once
  2. To replace exercise with them
  3. To understand how avoiding them affects risk now and later ✔

Why: Discussing harmful substances you avoid helps you see how choices affect current and future risk.

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Avoiding harmful substances is a clear choice for clear health.
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Answer: To understand how avoiding them affects risk now and later. Discussing harmful substances you avoid helps you see how choices affect current and future risk.

  1. Scouting America: Personal Fitness www.scouting.org/merit-badges/personal-fitness
    Discuss what harmful substances you consciously avoid, and how these actions affect your risk factors now and in the future.
    Checked 2026-11-07.

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