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Teen Smoking

INTRODUCTION

These are some reasons that cause teens to smoke before the age of 18. Peer pressure is one of the most common effects that cause teens to smoke or try something that shouldn’t be tried. Especially when hanging with friends, a lot of teens get pressured into doing things and one of them is smoking. Friends pressure them into smoking and that’s when they try to fit in so they won’t get teased or become ashamed because they didn’t want to try it. Promotion or availability is when teens get influenced by watching adults such as relatives, parents, aunts and uncles smoke. They pick up that vibe where in their mind they are thinking. Also when teens watch someone they look up to as a role model, they follow them because they want to be just like them, but one them not realizing they are picking up a bad habit that shouldn’t be followed. Even favourite singers, actors are strong influence on young teens. Availability is another, especially when parents allow their kids to smoke and also giving them the cigarettes to smoke or some go to a gas station and have someone older get a pack of cigarettes for them because of being underage.

Negative influence is another it is caused by peer pressure or the wrong peer group, which could be friends with a problem in their life that they would rather not say anything about. So it is their behaviours that is a negative influence for other teens, also their adult family members like their parents, aunties, uncles and cousins. They also can pressure teens to do thing that they do, for example: when a teen wants to try something, parents motivate them to try it. That’s when teens have negative influence not only by friends but someone close to you that you would do such a thing like pressuring you into something.

Teen smoking is one of the biggest things that happen not only in Malaysia, but all over the world. The effects of smoking at such a young age can affect you in the long term because of all the harmful chemicals inside. Just inside one cigarette there are numerous amounts and a variety of types of chemicals. The same chemicals are used in rocket fuel, rat poison, carbon mono-oxide, and many other things that can be harmful and affect you in the long run when you smoke.

Cigarette and more specifically tobacco smoke is full of chemicals and poison. As you discovered in our chemicals in cigarettes section tobacco smoke contain 4,000 chemicals, many of which make smoking harmful. When you start smoking some of these chemicals can affect you later in your life as said in this statement. One in two lifetime smoker will die from their habit. Half of these deaths will occur in middle age. If teens are very physically active then cigarettes will down grade their performance in what they like or love doing because smoking makes the body work even harder than it did before.

BACKGROUND OF STUDY

John Rolfe

Rolfe was born in Meacham, Norfolk, England as the son of John Rolfe and Dorothea Mason, and was baptized on May 6,1585 . At the time, Spain held a virtual monopoly on the lucrative tobacco trade. Most Spanish colonies in the New World were located in southern climates more favourable to tobacco growth than the English settlements, notably Jamestown. As the consumption of tobacco had increased, the balance of trade between England and Spain began to be seriously affected. Rolfe was one of a number of businessmen who saw the opportunity to undercut Spanish imports by growing tobacco in England’s new colony at Jamestown, in Virginia. Rolfe had somehow obtained seeds to take with him from a special popular strain then being grown in Trinidad and South America, even though Spain had declared a penalty of death to anyone selling such seeds to a non-Spaniard.

Smoking First World [ INFO ]

Tobacco has a long history in the Americas. India Virtual Mexico carved rock painting showing the use of tobacco. This painting dates back to somewhere between 600 to 900 AD Tobacco grown by the Indians before Europeans came from England, Spain, France, and Italy to North America. Native American tobacco smoked through pipes for the purpose of religion and medicine. They did not smoke every day.

Tobacco is a crop grown for money first in North America. In 1612, the first colony of settlers in Jamestown, Virginia grew tobacco as a cash crop. It is the main source of their money. Other crops are corn, cotton, wheat, sugar, and soy beans. Tobacco helps pay the American Revolution against England. In addition, the first President of the United States grew tobacco.

By the 1800s, many people have started using a small amount of tobacco. Some has it. Others sometimes smoke it in the pipe, or their hand-rolled cigarettes or cigars. Smoking the first commercial was made in 1865 by Washington Duke in farms 300 acres in Raleigh, North Carolina. Smoking hand rolled him was sold to soldiers at the end of the civil war.

It's not until James Bo sack invented a machine that made smoking in 1881 that the cigarette be extensively. He goes into business with son, Washington Duke, James "Buck" Duke. They built a factory and make 10 million smoking their first year and approximately one billion smoking five years later. The first cigarette brands packaged in a box with baseball cards and were called Duke of Durham. Buck Duke and his father started a tobacco company was the first in the United States They named the American Tobacco Company.

They sell smoking them primarily for men. Everything changed during World War I (1914-1918) and World War II (1939-1945). Soldiers abroad gave smoking free per day. Home production increased and smoking is being marketed to women. More than any other war, World War II brought freedom to women. Many of them went to work and started smoking for the first time while their husbands were away.

By 1944 smoking withdrawal up to 300 billion a year. Man services received about 75% of all cigarettes produced. Wars are good for the tobacco industry. Since WW II, there are six giant cigarette companies in the us. Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds, American Brands, Lorillard, Brown and Williamson, Liggett && Myers (now known as the Brooke Group).They make millions of dollars selling cigarettes in the United States and around the world.

In 1964, the Surgeon General of the United States of America (heads of State) has written a report on the dangers of smoking. He said that nicotine and tar in cigarettes cause lung cancer. In 1965, Congress approved the smoking labeling and Advertising Act. It says that every Pack of cigarettes must have warning labels on the top that says "Smoking may be hazardous to your health."

By the 1980s, tobacco companies has come up with a new brand of smoking with lower tar and nicotine filters and better to maintain their customers buy and to help alleviate their concerns. Early 1980s called "tar wars" because the tobacco companies compete aggressively to deliver 100 low tar and "ultra" low tar smoking. Each company made and sold various brands of cigarettes.

Public law 99-474, "no Comprehensive Education Act, 1984"

Credit: No Tobacco Control Centre & Health Disease

Since 1980, federal, State, local governments, and private companies have begun to take action to restrict smoking in public areas. The first step of warning labels. Tobacco companies cannot advertise smoking on television or radio. It is against the law passed by Congress in 1971.

Chemical in Cigarette Smoke

Smoking is very dangerous and not good for health. Smoke is responsible for more than 85% of lung cancer and in relation to cancer mouth, faring, luring, esophagus, pancreatic, gastric mucosa, mouth, urinary tract, kidney, urethra, bowel and the natural alternative. Smoke is linked to leukemia. Constructed in terms of carcinogenic smoke smoking, in relation to the increase in cardiovascular disease reckon (including stroke), sudden death, cardiac, ischemic prisoners periphery and aneurism an aorta running along.

SUBSTANCES-TOXIC SUBSTANCES ON SMOKING

Smoking pregnant approximately 4,000 more elements and at least 200 were harmful to Health. The main poison in cigarettes is tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide. In addition, in a smoking also pregnant other chemicals not lost toxic.

Substances-toxic substances that are available in smoking among others are as follows:

Carbon monoxide(CO). Gas CO is a gas has no smell. The element was produced by the combustion of nutrients is not perfect from coal or carbon. Gas CO produced a smoking can reach 3 – 6%, gas can in smoke by anyone. By people who smoke or the person closest to the smokers, or people who are in one space. One who smokes will only smoke 1/3 constructed currents middle or mid-stream, whereas the current edge (side-stream) will remain outside. After that smokers will not swallow all smoke but it spray more out. Gas CO has the ability of binding sickle (Hub) in the red blood cells (sedimentation of erythrocytes) stronger compared oxygen, until each is smoke air oxygen rates already reduced, added more red blood cells will increasingly lack oxygen, pub transported is CO and O2 (oxygen). The cell body is suffering from a lack of oxygen will strive to improve through blood vessels. When the process runs long continuously then veins will easily get heavily damaged by the process of atherosclerosis (narrowing). Narrowing blood vessels will happen everywhere. In the brain, the heart, the lungs, kidneys, legs, at pregnant women.

Nicotine contained in smoke between 0.5 – 3 nag, and everything is absorbed, until in the blood or plasma dilution between 40 – 50 nag/ml. Nicotine is not carcinogenic component. Hot foul results of nicotine such as of a carcinogenic. In the lungs, nicotine can spread. As much heroin and cocaine, nicotine, and also had characteristics of addicting effects . Smokers will feel pleasure, reduced emergency, tolerance and commit thing that. Things that cause why once smoking is difficult to stop. Effect of nicotine cause hormonal stimulation cycle which is driving the heart and blood pressure. The heart was not given the opportunity for relaxation and blood pressure are increasingly rise to hypertension. Other effects stimulate (cell blood clots), thrombosis will eventually clog the blood vessels that are already cramped due to smoke that pregnant CO who hails from smoking.

Tar. Tar is a chestnut colored keenly liquid or black which is a hydrocarbon of a glued on the lungs. Tar in smoking rates between 0, 5-35 mg per stick. Tar is a carcinogenic substance that can cause cancer for the cause of bad breath and lung.

Cadmium is a nutrient that can poison your body especially kidney network.

Karolin. Karolin is a liquid substance that are not colored as baldhead. This little lot of pregnancy nutrition rates alcohol. This meant, Karolin was the liquid alcohol has been taken. This very disturbing health.

Ammoniac is a gas that is not made up of nitrogen and hydrogen. This substance in sharp smell and very stimulating. So the harshness of the poison on the ammonia so if in the least into blood circulation will result in someone faint or commas. Sour is a format that is not moving liquid free and able to make blisters. Liquid is very sharp and penetrate the smell. This can cause a person to have such as felt bitten Ant.

Hydrogen cyanides are a gas that is not colored, odorless and has no taste. Zap is the most nutritious, light combustible and highly efficient to hinder breathing apparatus channel destroy. Cyanides is one of the nutrients that are very dangerous pregnancy poison. A bit was direct to the cyanide spillage included body can result in death.

Health Effects of Tobacco

Know the Truth

Because a child's body is still growing, teens and youth are vulnerable to its deadly effects. Smoking by children and adolescents hastens the onset of lung function decline during late adolescence and early adulthood and is related to impaired lung growth, chronic coughing, and wheezing.

Addiction
Nicotine is not only highly addictive for youth, it's poisonous - it can be used as a pesticide on crops, and a drop of pure nicotine would kill a person. Every day, another 1,500 kids become daily smokers, and one-third of them will die prematurely as a result of getting hooked. Even youth who don't smoke very often can suffer the adverse effects of addiction

Physical Performance
Tobacco can affect youth activities and athletic performance. Tobacco narrows blood vessels and puts a strain on the heart, it also leads to lack of oxygen and shortness of breath. Smokers run slower and can't run as far as non-smokers.

Secondhand Smoke
The Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that secondhand smoke causes lung cancer in adults and greatly increases the risk of respiratory illnesses in children and sudden infant death syndrome. The carbon monoxide in tobacco smoke increases the chance of cardiovascular diseases, and children who breathe secondhand smoke are more likely to develop ear infections, allergies, bronchitis, pneumonia, and asthma. Older children whose parents smoke get sick more often.

Troubling Health Facts about Smoking and Teens

Girls who smoke are more likely to grow excess facial hair.
Smoking as few as 5 cigarettes a day can reduce teens' lung function growth, with teenage girls being especially vulnerable.
40% of teenagers who smoke daily have tried to quit and failed.
About 2/3 of teen smokers say they want to quit smoking, and 70% say they would not have started if they could choose again.
44% of teens say they didn't know bidi cigarettes could lead to cancer. Find out about bidis.
One bidi cigarette produces 3 times as much nicotine and carbon monoxide as a regular cigarette and 5 times as much tar.
Teens who smoke produce twice as much phlegm as teens who don't.
Teens who smoke break out more.
Zits last longer for teens who smoke.

Kids who smoke 2 or 3 cigarettes a day can get hooked in as short as two weeks.
Teens who smoke are more likely to catch a cold than people who don't - and their symptoms will probably be worse and last longer.
Teenagers who smoke use more medications than those who do not smoke.
Teenagers who smoke have significantly more trouble sleeping than those who do not smoke.
1 out of every 3 young people who become regular smokers will die of a smoking related disease.
If current smoking patterns in the United States persist, approximately 5 million of today's children will die prematurely of tobacco-related diseases. Read about Preventing Chronic Diseases and Tobacco Use from the CDC.
Most people start using tobacco before they finish high school. This means that if you stay smoke-free in school, you will probably never smoke.

SIGNIFICANT OF STUDY

Teen smoking is on the rise and it is a problem. Because parents don’t care what their children or child does. They also sneak off away from people, and go under bridges or in alleys. Teens can get diseases, like lung cancer or leukaemia from smoking. They do it to improve their self image to look cool like everybody else that does it.

My solution, government should not discourage smoking after than making its risks widely known, otherwise they would interfere with consumers, freedom of choice. Smoker always bear the costs of their consumption choice and tobacco control will lead to only a slow decline in global tobacco use (which is projected to stay high for the next several decades). The resulting need for downsizing will be far less dramatic than many other industries have had to face. Tobacco addiction is so strong that simply raising taxes will not reduce demand; therefore raising taxes is not justified. Scores of studies have shown that increased taxes reduce the number of smoker and the number of smoking-related deaths. Government will lose revenues if they increase cigarette taxes, because people will buy fewer cigarette, smuggling and illicit production will undermine the effects of raised tobacco taxes. Smuggling is a serious concern. But even in the face of smuggling the evidence from a number of countries shows that tax increases still increase revenues and reduce cigarette consumption.

Therefore, government should not raise cigarette taxes because such increase will have a disproportionate impact on poor consumers. Existing tobacco taxes do consume a higher share to the poor consumer’s income then or rich consumers. In response to higher cigarette taxes, smoker will switch to cheaper brands or cheaper tobacco products and thus there will be on reduction in overall tobacco consumption, taxes rates for cigarette are already too high in most countries. Measure to reduce tobacco supply is effective ways to reduce consumption.

Conclusion, there is a grave need for something to be done about the increase level of teenage cigarette smoking. Ideally, presenting all the facts and figure relating to the negative effects of tobacco products the world could create a smokeless generation. Hopefully, there will soon be on need for smoke free zones because the world will be a smoke free zone. It is our job to help our children see through the smoke.

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

Tobacco is only an issue for affluent people and affluent countries.
Smoker always bear the costs of their consumption choices.
One third of all new smokers will eventually die younger than normal of smoking-related diseases
And nearly 90% of all smokers started when they were teens.
Carbon monoxide in tobacco smoke takes oxygen from your body while many cancer-causing chemicals go in.
Your teeth and nails turn yellow and degusting and your breath stinks.
You cannot taste or smell things very well.

CONCLUSION

Conclusion, there is a grave need for something to be done about the increase level of teenage cigarette smoking. Ideally, presenting all the facts and figures relating to the negative effect of tobacco products the world could create a smokeless generation. Hopefully, there will soon be no need for smoke free zones because the world will be a smoke zone it is our job to help our children see through the smoke.

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