vast majority of parents do not want their kids to smoke‚ for obvious reasons. Smoking causes a wide range of serious health problems – including lung cancer‚ heart disease‚ and strokes – and frequently results in premature disability and death. To make matters worse‚ kids can start becoming seriously addicted to smoking very quickly‚ just weeks or even days after first “experimenting” with 1 cigarettes. What’s more‚ smoking can harm kids well before they reach adulthood by causing a number 2 of immediate
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Pressure While there are certainly other influences that can lead a smoker into the habit‚ peer pressure is one of the biggest. A large part of the reason peer pressure comes under scrutiny is that one of the groups most likely to begin smoking -- young teenagers -- is also one of the most susceptible to peer pressure. The awkward years between pure‚ dependent-on-parents childhood and independent young adulthood are marked for many by frustration and insecurity as status‚ family roles and physical
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SMOKING ON CAMPUS Today‚ as in every other day of the year‚ more than 3‚000 adolescents in the United States will smoke their first cigarette on their way to becoming regular smokers as adults (NCI 1994). A number of students on campus are habitual smokers because smoking is addictive; furthermore‚ unless repressed‚ it leads to many health complications. The report by the National Cancer Institute on smoking declares that cigarette smoking in the United States clearly outweighs any other factor
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Teenagers Problems Teenage is a fundamental stage of life that each human being passes through. Some people face this period of their life strongly and positively‚ while others face many problems and difficulties. This depends on the environment these young adults live in‚ their parents‚ their friends‚ their living conditions‚ their education‚ and many other factors. Teenagers face many problems such as becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol‚ being influenced negatively by their peers‚ self-image
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Smoking is Bad! According to the American Lung Association‚ there are estimated 50 million people who smoke. Smoking kills more people than any other disease in the world‚ 5.4 million death in 2004 and more than 100 million over the twentieth century. However‚ smokers do not fully understand the risks they take by smoking. It affects a person physically and mentally‚ economically and socially. First of all‚ smoking affects a smoker physically and mentally. Nicotine in cigarettes or cigars is a
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Chapter I Introduction Smoking is a very rampant habit among people nowadays‚ particularly among college students. About 90% of all smokers started as teen smokers. Smoking has a lot of effect to our body and to the behaviour of the smoker as well as to our environment. Scientist has proven that smoking can cause a lot of complications including asthma‚ lung cancer and stomach cancer. Smoking can also cause improvement in reaction and processing time because nicotine is a psychomotor
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The war on smoking has existed for decades. With the advent of more tenacious laws prohibiting smoking in public locations‚ and most recently Minnesota ’s historic tobacco settlement‚ many actions against "Big Tobacco" have become more successful. Anti-smoking campaigns have become more confrontational‚ directly targeting tobacco companies in an effort to expose its manipulative and illegal marketing tactics. On the surface‚ last November ’s $206 billion settlement agreement between the
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Prevention of Smoking in Adolescents A man named Bryan‚ who lived in St. Petersburg‚ Florida‚ started smoking when he was 13 years old. Throughout his high school years‚ he smoked about twenty cigarettes a day with no problem. At age 33‚ he was diagnosed with lung cancer and died six weeks later. He left behind a wife and a three year old son (Landry). Each day‚ nearly six thousand children under the age of eighteen start smoking; of these six thousand‚ two thousand will become regular smokers
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chemicals in tar include benzene and benzo(a)pyrene. Tobacco Smoke Tobacco smoke contains many harmful gases that can be damaging to the body such as carbon monoxide‚ formaldehyde‚ hydrogen cyanide‚ ammonia and acrolein. Passive Smoking Passive smoking is involuntary smoking by non-smokers inhaling the smoke of others. Smoke emitted from a lighted cigarette can be split into two types; mainstream smoke and sidestream smoke. Mainstream smoke is the smoke that the smoker inhales through the cigarette
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Many people nowadays smoke cigarette even teenagers smoke. Some people have no idea about the chemical of a tobacco and what it can cause to a human body. This paper is intended to give the readers an idea of the factors that trigger cigarette smoking amongst young generation of today‚ effects of cigarette‚ like cancer‚ heart disease‚ emphysema‚ and chronic bronchitis. By reading this paper‚ a person can gain knowledge about the effects of smoking cigarette. So when a person reads this especially
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