...Persistent coughing accompanied with phlegm, yellow stains on teeth and fingers, constant colds – these are only some of the signs that a person is smoking. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, adolescents aged 12 to 17 are reportedly utilize a tobacco product and about 60 percent of new smokers were under the age of 18 when they began smoking a cigarette in 2010. The findings of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health state that 90% of adult smokers started smoking as kids According to the Youth Smoking Survey, factors that influence whether a kid smokes or not include the following: peer pressure, influence from adults, stress, advertising, and media. Kids may also be attracted to smoking to look cool, to act older, seem tough, or...
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...Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Teenage Smoking in Florida Smoking is a common demeanor in many individuals in the country. However, teenagers in Florida have developed the habit of smoking that raises a lot of concern. The teenage smoking frequently commences in schools with the majority of the cases being in the high schools. Also, important to note is the fact the residential nature of the teenagers also inflicts the habit of smoking in them. Teenage smoking has adverse effects on those who engage in this harmful behavior. Smoking results in various health complications in the teenagers. Research evinces that people who smoke consume close to 400 toxic chemicals including; cyanide, benzene, formaldehyde, nicotine, ammonia, acetylene and carbon monoxide. Early smoking increases the risk of teenagers later having emphysema, strokes and chronic bronchitis. Moreover, smoking diminishes the performance of the teenagers in school through decreased concentration and incessant truancy (HealthyChildren.org, 2014, p. 1). Teenage smoking in Florida begins as early as 12 years of age with the majority being between 14 years to 19 years of age. There are various causes of teenage smoking in Florida. Many will claim that the problem results from peer pressure whereby teenagers feel the pressure to imitate the demeanor of their peers. Another reason is that teenagers feel that smoking makes them look older or more mature. Others smoke out of a sense of rebellion. Most of the teenagers...
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...Hypothesis Young people start smoking because of peer pressure Background / Secondary research There are some information about young smokers and why do they start smoking of three websites, such as Ash.org.uk (2014), Helpwithsmoking (2014), www.cancer.org (2014). This essay will compare and contrast those informations. With respect to all of three websites pointed out that most people start smoking when they was at teenages. Ash.org.uk (2014) and cancer.org (2014) showed that people start smoking because of many reasons, that is : Parental and sibling smoking, smoking by friends and peer group members, by tobacco marketing. Next to all of this reason, there are another reason diffirent from aboves article that is by peer pressure is an important part make people start smoking ( Helpwithsmoking 2014) while ash.org.uk (2014) and cancer.org (2014) mentioned that parental and sibling smoking is the main reason make teenages start smoking. Moreover, helpwithsmoking (2014) and cancer.org (2014) argues that teenages think smoke can help them make a new friends easier than those who do not smoke. Furthermore, cancer.org (2014) and helpwithsmoking (2014) showed that Advertising on TV and media have been banned for many years. It is pointed out, People who experiment with cigarettes can quickly become addicted to the nicotine in tobacco. (canncer.org 2014) and (ash.org.uk 2014) references American cancer society (2014), why do people start smoking. Available at: www.cancer.org...
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...1. I agree with Stephen Chapman because government officials should not be allowed to send a letter to the MPAA to use smoking as a way to determine a film's rating because that is censorship. The first amendment states that the government cannot interfere with freedom of speech therefore this is a clear violation of the first amendment, one that should be changed. 2. Chapman disproves many experts claims that more teenagers smoke because they see actors smoking in movies more than once. The first time he disproves it is by pointing out the fact that teenage smoking has decreased even while smoking in the movies has increased. Another way he disproves this theory is by using baseball, "Just because there is lots of beer drinking at baseball...
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...November 7, 2012 Smoking Smoking has become a trending topic in today’s world, as leading problem in today’s society that starts for many reasons. The habit may start because of curiosity, peer pressure, stress, personal issues, even though people know how harmful it can. Some people begin smoking due to the stress in their lives and are under the misconceived notion that it relaxes them. Others smoke due to the assumption that because their parents smoke, it must be okay. A little common sense would indicate that inhaling smoke cannot be good or healthy for the human body. Smoking is very addicting and it affects youth to adult youth. One effect of smoking, and probably the one that the non-smokers hate the most, is that it stinks up everything around them. Smokers usually have smelly hair, breath, clothes, and, if they smoke indoors, a smelly room/ house. The stench of a cigarette is so strong and very hard to get rid of. Even if the person quits smoking the odor remains for a long time. Another effect of smoking is one that most people don’t even take into consideration. It stains the teeth yellow, or sometimes even brown. Since this effect is long term, most people are not aware of it when they begin smoking. The truth is that a cigarette stain is very hard to eliminate from the teeth, and it can end up costing a considerable amount of money. Yellow teeth are disgusting because they give an unhygienic image and make people look older A third effect of smoking is that it will...
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...SETTING Introduction Teens smoke for many reasons and often for the same reasons as adults do: to cope with stress, to control their weight, as a social habit and to combat boredom. One of the biggest reasons teens start to smoke is peer influence: smoker’s friends do it. Studies show that this is especially true for girls. There's clear evidence that tobacco companies target children in their marketing. Some of the most effective are sports sponsorships - for example, boys are twice as likely to smoke if they follow car racing. Movies too: the more kids see their favorite movie stars smoking on the screen, the more likely they'll try it themselves. Some researchers think that tobacco advertising carries even more weight than peer influence. Teenagers usually smoke cigarettes because they are seeking the answer to try to be "cool" or try to be "adult". Sometimes, teens see their parents smoking and want to do it. This is a major problem because they want to be like their parents and sense they are adults, teens also want to feel like adults. A lot of adults and teens have depression and when they feel sad, smokers find cigarettes to "help" them go through their sadness. Not all people with depression smoke though. Take homeless people as an example. Smokers want to forget about their troubles and smoke weed or get drunk because homeless people think that getting high or drunk will make them happier. Sometimes, teens see their friends do it. Smoker’s friends are cool to them. Then...
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...An Analysis and Interpretation of Anna Hope’s ”A Gap of Sky” (2008) When being a teenage student in the twenty-first century you might find yourself at a crossroad where important decisions have to be made. You have to consider your ambitions and where you will end up with the current lifestyle you are living. In Anna Hope’s A Gap of Sky (2008) teenager Ellie finds herself deeply reflecting over both partying and doing drugs, but also the severity of her college education. Ellie is a nineteen year old college student residing in the heart of London. She is living a hectic life with drinking, ketamine abuse and smoking crack pipe. The lifestyle that she is living suggests that she does not take her education seriously and she also blames her parents for taking this “bloody course in the first place” (p. 3 l. 66). The narrator is third person heterodiegetic and it is internal with limited omniscience. Throughout the story Ellie’s thoughts are described, but it is not herself telling them. This is seen as the pronoun “I” is never used, but “she” is used in the entire story. Ellie is the protagonist and all of her thoughts and actions are depicted, but it is not herself describing them, the narrator is therefore heterodiegetic since it is not an actual character itself. Ellie is the only character in the story who is mentioned by name and has great significance to the story. She is also the only person whose point of view is shown and the narrator can thereby be characterized...
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...Keep simple and polite! Good morning teachers and friends, I, Ahmad Khairi Hafiz as the President of the Environment Club would like to talk about”How to Protect the Environment” First of all, each one of us can start by not littering. We should throw our rubbish into the rubbish bin instead of anywhere we like. Once I went strolling at a park nearby my house but was dissapointed at the sight of rubbish.I saw many empty cans and plastic wrappers lying around.They do not only spoil the beautiful park but they are the best breeding place for aedes mosquitoes. Another way of protecting our environment is by keeping our rivers clean. We can play our role by not throwing rubbish into the rivers. Meanwhile the factories can stop dumping their toxic waste into them. Plastic wrappers which made up 80 percent of the rubbish can endanger the fish and other aquatic lives while toxic waste can kill them. We, human will consequently suffer as we rely on the rivers for food and water. Moreover, farmers should avoid open burning in their farming practice because it polutes the air.Open burning can lead to haze which contains poisonous gases such as carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide. These gases can cause many serious diseases. Children who breathe the polluted air may suffer from asthma and some people may even suffer from rashes and eye-diseases. Finally, we can practice the 3R; Reuse, Reduce and Recycle. Every household should aim at reducing the amount of rubbish thrown.To...
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...1602, as an anonymous English author published an essay titled Worke of Chimney Sweepers, which stated that illnesses often seen in chimney sweepers were caused by soot and that tobacco may have similar effects. This was one of the earliest recognized instances of smoking being related to ill health. Cigarette making machines were developed in the second half of the 1800s. The first such machines produced about 200 cigarettes per minute, whereas today’s machines produce about 9,000 per minute (A Brief History of Smoking, 2014).Hence, teenagers are becoming addicted to smoking...
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...CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction The Good and Bad Effects of Peer Pressure to Teenagers Peer pressure is commonly applied to younger people especially to us teenagers. Responding to peer pressure is a part of growing up that some teenagers more likely to give in. Peer pressure is the only thing that all teens have in common and some of them can't escape it because it’s almost everywhere. Peer pressure is the way that people influence another individual to take an action or adopt certain values to be one of their social groups. Teenagers are very quick in making their own decisions and judgements. When communication is lacking at home, teens may seek it among their peers instead to their parents for them they know that their peers are always right because they're feeling what you also feel. You think all of you have a lot in common. This outcome indicates that teens may find it more difficult to control their behaviors when their friends are around. They are visible and expressive when it comes to their peers but when it comes to their own parents they are invisible. They always keep in their minds that their parents will never understand them as their peers do. In the bright side, it can also have a positive effect. Peer influence is not necessarily bad at all times. Fellowship with other youths can also sharpen our personality and make us a better person. They can also be a good instrument for us teenagers if...
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...Abstract This essay identifies some of the factors that contribute to teenage delinquency. Many experts disagree on the fundamental ideas about the causes of teen violence. There has been long lasting disagreements surrounding the Nature Vs Nurture controversy. Nature refers to the idea that teenage delinquents are born naturally violent as a result of genetic disorders, it is assumed that the genes an individual has inherited makes some teens behave violently. Nurture refers to the ways that people learn to behave violently as a result of their surroundings. The causes of teenage delinquency are greatly based on nurture due to the juvenile youth experiencing or witnessing parental violence in the home, living in a violent neighbourhood and witnessing violence in the media. Teen violence is a growing epidemic that is increasing rapidly and the negative behaviours of teens can result in crimes murders, rape, robbery and threaten an individual with physical harm. Teenage Delinquency is the product of nurture. A person’s upbringing can be negatively influenced by the socialization agents’ family, peers and media. Firstly, Family has a strong influence on the individual’s positive or delinquent behaviour. The absence of family resources may cause youth to engage in criminal behaviour. Families play an important role in the development of children; however when children are brought up with parents that are too harsh, children start disrespecting their parents...
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...Writer's Memo In today's draft we are discussing what our books are arguing today what I wanted to achieve was to give some background, but at the same time be able to keep the draft at a good pace . The intended heartbeat of this piece was happy heart, I chose this heartbeat because I feel like this piece meets its standards without going exceeding on the details.When I wrote this piece I was trying to make this essay seem like a research paper. The genre of this piece is an analysis essay, to achieve my purpose I went back and looked at some of my old analysis essays to pull old ideas and included them into my analysis essay. I believe I was pretty successful in doing so, to achieve my intended heartbeat, I made this essay, but short and...
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...and whether everybody has equal conditions when it comes to having a life without poverty, as a child or as an adult. In the essay “Living in Poverty” by Richard Wright poverty is the main theme. Richard Wright invites us in to the debate with his personal experiences and his story about living in Britain’s poor environment. Through the story Richard Wright get us to think – is poverty something in our mind? And is poverty really the only option for someone? The essay “Living in Poverty” is a creative non-fiction essay. More specifically; a personal essay, so I assume that Richard Wright is the “I” in the story. The essay is focusing on the topic ‘poverty’ through Richard Wright’s own stories and are therefore based on true and personal experiences. The whole story is about Richard Wright growing up – his childhood, teenage years and years as an adult. Richard Wright grew up in poverty, but he expresses that he never felt poor or saw he his family as a poor family. He grew up with a loving family, a safe neighborhood and good friends. Richard Wright even manages to get an education. Richard Wright is through the whole essay trying to substantiate his claim. His claim is that poverty is not only about the amount of money a family has, it is “a state of mind” as he says. The fact that he tells about how he ends up as his parents, drinking and smoking, but afterwards gets on...
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...‘Assess’ Essay Planning Sheet Name: Essay Title: Using material from Item A and elsewhere, assess sociological explanations of changes in the status of childhood (24 marks) | Underline or highlight the key concepts, terms and instructions, by identifying these key elements it will allow you to focus on answering the question. It is important to use relevant sociological terminology within the context of you essay. List the key sociological terms that will be appropriate for this essay. Privileged time, social construct, golden age, separateness, toxic childhood, child-centred, march of progress, conflict view, child liberationists, globalisation, information hierarchy | IntroductionSignpost to the question and clearly explain the key concepts /terms of the question | In today’s society, childhood is seen to be socially constructed in that this idea of childhood has been created by society and its institutions rather than being a natural occurrence; it is society’s perception of what childhood is. Sociologists argue that childhood and the position that children have in society is not fixed, and that it differs between times, places, and cultures. However, children all have different experiences of what childhood is to them based on class, gender, and ethnicity so no one would experience childhood in the same way. | Paragraph 1PointThe point must be appropriate in answering the question. | The modern western...
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...Drug abuse is being seen as a serious problem in the society that could be defined as the lost controlling of drug people who have used too much. Drug is often used to help people in medical issue but there are some reasons that individuals abuse it. This essay will look at some cause of drug abuse and then examine its effects. Firstly, one of major cause is addictive personality that means a person is more likely to become drug dependent. People are curious, lonely and they try a drug because they want to relax or have pleasure. The pressure of busy life, work frequently lead people be stressful then they might find a solution that is use drug. Other cause of drug abuse is peer pressure that means ours relationship sometimes is cause us join in something or in order to maintain that relationship. Teenage time is the hugest time this situation exist, kid want to be cool or accepted as a part of group so they take a drug as showing off. For example, making new friends, to be a part of a group, someone tries to show off their pressure by drink a lot, smoking and even take a drug. There are two cause of drug abuse. Some its effects will now be examine. The first effect of drug abuse could be seen health problems of users. People become drug addict, they can not stop using drug even they require more. Drug makes people lost their resistant abilities with diseases, illness and cause of some social diseases such as HIV. A common example is that people get HIV from the other...
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