Cigarette Smoking Addiction in Teens
Author: Dane Pearson
Because of advertisements and other forms of media that promote smoking, many teens think it is okay and cool to smoke. And the result is that many teens are getting addicted to nicotine and cigarettes. All over the world, smoking begins as a teenage experience. Few smokers have begun smoking as adults. In the United States, on an average day, at least 3,000 young people become regular smokers, and more than 6,000 adolescents try to smoke their first cigarette. The outlook for regular smokers who began smoking as teenagers and continue into adulthood is grim. Research shows that people who start smoking before the age of 21 have the hardest time quitting. It is also estimated that about 30% of youth smokers who continue smoking well into adulthood would die early from a smoking-related disease. While smoking may be legal for adults, the medical costs associated with it are enormous. Many of those who suffer and die from smoking-related illnesses actually took up the habit in their teens.
In today's health news, there seem to be startling new statistics regarding teen smoking. It appears nearly one in five 13-to-15-year-old students worldwide uses some form of tobacco, according to the global youth tobacco survey started seven years ago, as a joint effort by the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Students from more than 130 countries responded to questions about tobacco, including personal use, secondhand exposure and advertising. The study found that Europe and the Americas had the highest rates of cigarette smoking, at approximately 18 percent. In all regions, the use of other tobacco products was generally more common among boys than among girls. Nearly a quarter of high school students in the US smoke cigarettes. Another 8% use smokeless tobacco. In addition to the innate dangers faced by the smoker, there are dangerous effects of secondhand smoke to non-smokers as well. Secondhand smoke causes many serious health problems. It contributes to as many as 300,000 cases of pneumonia, bronchitis, and other respiratory infections in infants and children every year. It is also one of the risk factors in the development of childhood asthma, causing 8,000 to 26,000 new cases each year. Smoking has many health risks for everyone. However, the younger a person starts to smoke, the more problems it can cause. The tobacco industry spends about million per day to market cigarettes, and most of this marketing is targeted at kids. To stop this kind of unethical advertising, critics argue Congress should pass legislation that would give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco products and marketing, as well as to ban candy-flavored cigarettes.
Combating teen smoking in America is a really serious public health issue. It is relevant as well to the problems in developing countries faced with smoking by children and adolescents. The issues on teen smoking clearly speaks to policy makers, health personnel, researchers, and young people. Each group has a role to play to address the growing health problems among minors.
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Do you agree there is a increasing trend of smoking,drug & alcohol abuse among youngster in our society today?
I am currently working on a project on this topic and i need to put up a small survey to complete it. So, please do help answer my questions below. It takes about only 5 minutes.
1) Do you agree with me that the rate of smokers, drug abuse and alcohol abuse has been increasing over the past few years till today?
2) Which one of those three do u think is more harmful than the other two? Why?
3) Which one of the three problems do you think is most or least common among youngster?
4) In your opinion, why do you think that youngsters smoke, drink and take drugs nowadays?
Please do include your age group.
Thanks.
um duh no y wuld any one agree w abuse of drugs and drinks. i think drinking more harmfull wuld b cuz its more easier to get and over dose. but drugs are getting more out there’ and thats bad. bud aint bad too. look at Jamaica. but they do it cuz it puts them in another state and they like doing forbidden things. there has to b a line. dont want to over protect but dont want to let them free. part is pressure to but they need to know they shuld b on top and not b weak minded! hope u do good and are one of the leaders not a sheep. o im in the 20 s young
Help with science project? increasing trend of alcohol, drug and smoking abuse?
I am supposed to complete this task by 25th June. I have done research on this.
Problem observed:
‘There is an increasing trend of smoking, drug abuse and alcohol abuse among young people in our society today,’
I need to find actual figures to support this statement. e.g charts and figures.
I have tried to find the increasing trend but the trend seems to be decreasing at least that’s what most sites state. Anyone can help me? I need an increase in smoking, drug abuse and alcohol abuse over theese few years. Must be updated. 2005, 2006 or 2007 surveys, polls or research.
i know there is a decreasing trend!!! But I ned evidence for an increasing trend….Oh and it can be from 2000-2007.
help me find either increasing or decreasing and i need figures and charts. MUST be of young people today.
Ummm there is actually a decreasing trend…but whatever, good luck.
Do you think medicare or private insurence should pay for diseases related to smoking and drug abuse?
I think if someone is going to abuse their body, that they should be required to insure themselves privately. And not give the public the cost of treating substance abuse.
Thoughts and comments?
It’ll never happen. There are too many bleeding hearts and open hands in this country to get that done.
Besides, it will create the slippery slope argument. FIrst it’s this, then it’ll be people who don’t eat healthy. Then, you’ll have the government telling me what I can and can’t do with my body on one side, and then fatties and addicts claiming preferential treatment for healthy, ‘perfect’ people on the other. Moreso, what communities and income groups frequent fast food? What classes smoke the most? Where are drug related ‘illnesses’ the highest? Who would be least able to pay for private insurance?
Prescription drug abuse and pot smoking?
I have a step uncle who is 42 yrs old. he has been smoking pot and abusing drugs since he was in his teens. How long can he continue to do this before he has serious health problems??? And how has he been able to do it for so long without any problems?
He already has brain damage. His clock is ticking
what are the ways in which smoking,drug abuse,rash driving are viewed and prevented?
If intervention is made and habits are changes it would be predicted to have better outcome