The main character, high schooler Ren, smokes cigarettes often and during several scenes.
Teenagers drink and smoke. Inexcusably, none of the girls smoke.
Chuck is seen smoking a joint before the tractor race and us warned not to drive impaired.
Teenager Ren (Kevin Bacon) is shown blowing off his frustration by smoking a cigarette and drinking a beer.
The four main characters, Ariel, Ren, Willard and Rusty (Lori Singer, Kevin Bacon, Christopher Penn and Sarah Jessica Parker), go to a bar and drink alcohol. Willard, particularly, drinks many beers and is shown smoking a cigarette.
Another student offers Ren a joint as a "free sample" and offers to sell him more. Ren flushes it down a toilet to avoid a teacher's questions.