...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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...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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...Statistics Canada, they conducted a Canadian Community Health Survey – Mental Health (CCHS – MH) in 2012 that “12.2% of Canadians aged 15 or older (3.4 million) used marijuana in the past year” (Langlois and Rotermann). Over the years, smoking marijuana has become more and more of a ‘leisure activity’ amongst many young adolescents and teenagers. Whether or not society realizes, by participating, it has situated biased perceptions towards narcotics, strained their social relationships and triggered physiological effects on themselves. The majority of adolescents participate because of peer pressure. Regrettably, the innocent fifteen year old teen does not realize how detrimental smoking marijuana is after it is done once. Whereas, adults smoke marijuana because they are not able to escape their addiction therefore they partake in smoking marijuana to escape their reality. Prohibiting marijuana is a detrimental to their mental abilities, their health and the government. The prolonged misconception that smoking marijuana carries little to none health effects has been proven wrong by many doctors, scientists and researchers. Many users and pro-marijuana movements are under the impression that marijuana is not an addictive drug. After committing to smoking marijuana for the first time, the addiction is let off its leash. Recent studies has proven that marijuana is in fact and addictive drug. An...
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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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...Teenage Smokers from 1997 to 2007 Cigarette smoking during childhood and adolescence produces significant health problems among young people, including an increase in the number and severity of respiratory illnesses, decreased physical fitness and potential effects on the rate of lung growth and maximum lung function. Every day, almost 3,900 children under 18 years of age try their first cigarette, and more than 950 of them will become new, regular daily smokers. Half of them will ultimately die from their habit. People who begin smoking at an early age are more likely to develop a severe addiction to nicotine than those who start at a later age. Of adolescents who have smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime, most of them report that they would like to quit, but are not able to do so. Most importantly, this is when an addiction to smoking takes hold which often persists into and sometimes throughout adulthood. If current tobacco use persists, a high number of current child smokers will eventually die prematurely from a smoking-related disease. However, according to the New York Youth Risk Behavior Survey, the teenage smoking rates have dropped to 8.5% in 2007 from about 17.6% in 2001 and 23% in 1997. Using the given information, we can look at the probability of at least one teen in a group of ten, were smoking each year. Table & Histogram: Probability of NYC Teenagers Smoking Trend Year | Rate | Cumulative Binomial Probability | | 2007 | 0.085 | 0...
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...The Real Cost: More than Money Years ago, there was never a concern for smoking. Adults began at a young age and smoked everywhere, from bars and restaurants to movie theaters and airplanes. It was accepted socially and there were no rules against the habit, because no one fully understood the repercussions from it. According to recent research, of the more than 2.4 million deaths in the USA annually, over 440,000 are caused by smoking (Nordqvist). It is the largest cause of preventable death in the world and most of the deaths that could be prevented are adults. Tobacco companies understand that their product kills off their older customers, which is why they begin to aim their marketing strategies towards teenagers, in hopes that they will try cigarettes and become addicted to the nicotine, making them lifetime customers. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) sees this happening and has decided to take action against the behavior, via social media and public service announcements. The FDA has launched a new tobacco prevention campaign called “The Real Cost,” which is aimed toward youth. It targets adolescents ages 12-17 who are at risk of picking up smoking as a permanent habit. The goal of the campaign is to educate these youth about the harmful effects of tobacco use and in the long run reduce the amount of smokers in the future. There are several commercials based on “The Real Cost” aimed at teenagers that can be viewed during breaks on television channels most popular...
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...Teenage Smoking Name Course Subject Teenage smoking had become a serious health issue in the American society due to the increased number of young people engaging in the risky health behavior. There are a several health complication issue resulting from cigarette smoking such as a decrease in physical fitness and increase in respiratory illnesses. This paper seek to conduct a survey on the effectiveness of programs offered to teens in the society and the amount of information available to sensitize them on the effects of tobacco smoking. In additional, this paper seek to evaluate the effectiveness of therapy programs offered to assist teenagers quit smoking and avoid the behavior. The most effective methodology of collecting data is administering questionnaire in the aim of ensuring adequate information is collected on smoking habits among teenagers Edward (Swan & Gabbard, 2014, p. 140). The aim of collecting data in a mannerly and organized manner to use in developing health policies that assist in reducing health issues that result from smoking. Participants were selected randomly from high school and middle school students to ensure because they are the target in the research. Closed –ended questionnaires are administered to reduce the time consumption and make analysis process efficient (Jastone, 2006, p. 112). The period for the research is a year where participants are required to answer questions on a monthly basis. There are several ethical issues that...
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...Research Proposal on Smoking Amongst Teenage Girls in Secondary School. In the following proposal, I intend to put forward a proposal to study the smoking habits of teenage girls in secondary school. It has come to my attention that this is a problem area that is on the rise. I wish to use government funding to conduct research into this issue. It is my belief that if I can find the root of the problem, and discover why many young girls are smoking, I will then be able to propose and launch initiatives to try and tackle the problem altogether. In this proposal I endeavour to put forward the importance of my research question; why are the teenage girls in attending secondary school in Ireland smoking. Weather its due to a lack of information, peer pressure or the pressures of school I intend to find out. I intend to use three different types of research methods to gain information on why these girls are smoking. The first method I will use is focus groups. I think these will be useful on gaining an insight into these girl’s lives and to build a relationship with them. I will be able to see different reactions and will hopefully receive a lot of feedback. I’m also aware that in a focus group some members may be too shy or intimidated to speak up, this has lead me to my second research method which will be in-depth one to one interviews with girls. With these interviews I hope to get to the real truth of why these girls are smoking and what it would take to make them...
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...Differential Effects of Cigarette Price on Youth Smoking Intensity 1Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago 2Health Research and Policy Centers, University of Illinois at Chicago 3Health Economics Program, National Bureau of Economic Research ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Support for this research was provided by grants from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (ImpacTeen – A Policy Research Partnership to Reduce Youth Substance Use) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Price, Availability and Youth Tobacco Use) to the University of Illinois at Chicago. We thank Lloyd D. Johnston and Patrick J. O’Malley of the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research for providing us with selected data from the 1992, 1993 and 1994 Monitoring the Future Surveys. The Monitoring the Future Project is supported by a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse Abstract Objectives: Data from the 1992, 1993, and 1994 Monitoring the Future Surveys were used to investigate the differential effects of cigarette price on the intensity of youth cigarette smoking. Methods: Respondents are classified into nonsmokers; individuals who smoked less than one cigarette per day; individuals who smoked one to five cigarettes per day; individuals who smoked one-half pack a day; and individuals who smoked one pack or more a day. A Threshold of Change Model was estimated with information on cigarette prices as the main explanatory variables. Results: Dummy variables...
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...Teen Pregnancy Sabrina Marbury COM 172 June 19, 2012 Jessie Creech Teen Pregnancy In the United States more than one million teenage girls become pregnant every year (Plotnick, 1997). Only 13% of those pregnancies are intended (Plotnick, 1997). Teen Pregnancy has been defined as a teenaged or under aged girl becoming pregnant. Getting pregnant as a teenager gives her a higher risk of running into social aspects and economical issues that surround today’s teenage parents. Teens today are not educated the way they should be on safe sex or teen pregnancy. There are some consequences, big decisions, and great responsibilities a teen has to face once she is pregnant. Most girls seem not to care about being pregnant and overlook the matter that they are carrying a human being. Having a baby at a young age affects the life of the teen as well as the life of the child. Teen pregnancy has been a major concern in society today because of the lack of education and guidance teens have about safe sex and also the effects it brings upon the child and the mother. One main cause of teen pregnancy is the lack of education ("Lack of Parental Guidance," 2004). The lack of education on safe sex is a cause of teenage pregnancy, whether it is from parents, school, or a friend ("Lack of Parental Guidance," 2004). Teenagers with less education about sex and teen pregnancy are more likely to have an unintended pregnancy. Some teenagers chose not to discuss sex with parents because they feel...
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...Kilbourne, Psychology & Marketing. Vol. 27(8) 2010,p. 780-798). There are positive and negative social and individual effects of advertising. One positive social effect is the impact of materialism on economic growth. Most noticeable of the negative effects is the effect on the environment and the diminished overall sense of wellbeing. This in turn impacts families as a whole and filters into the psyche and behaviour of developing teenagers. (Garrett, D. E. 2010), Research the debate as to whether consumers are disadvantaged or vulnerable based on demographics, income or age and education. The Disadvantaged Consumer, (Andreasen 1975, 7) claims that the difficulties experienced by individuals whether because of age or education or demographics are as a result of the individuals own personality and personal attributes. Even though there is the Consumer Protection Act to protect consumers in the marketplace, whether the consumer is able to enforce these laws are questionable, (Mierzwinski, E. 2010. Colston E. Warne Lecture) In other words is it easy for vulnerable consumers to be protected from unscrupulous advertisers who target teenage audiences in social media, shopping malls, movie houses and television and...
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...Smoking Many teenagers and adults think that there are no effects of smoking on their bodies until they reach middle age. Smoking causes lung cancer, other cancers, heart disease, and stroke but usually do not occur until years after a person's first cigarette. However, there are many forms of harm that come from smoking that happen much sooner than you think. In all actuality, smoking has many instant health effects on the brain and on the respiratory, cardiovascular, immune and metabolic systems. “While these immediate effects do not all produce noticeable symptoms, most begin to damage the body with the first cigarette – sometimes irreversibly – and rapidly produce serious medical conditions and health consequences.” Many teenagers seem to believe that experimenting with smoking or even casual use will not lead to any type of addiction. “In fact, the latest research shows that serious symptoms of addiction – such as having strong urges to smoke, feeling anxious or irritable, or having unsuccessfully tried to not smoke – can appear among youths within weeks or only days after occasional smoking first begins.” The average smoker tries their first cigarette at age 12 and may be a regular smoker by age 14. Every day, more 3,500 kids try their first cigarette and about 1,000 other kids under 18 years of age become new regular, daily smokers. Almost 90 percent of youths that smoke regularly report seriously strong cravings, and more than 70 percent of teenage smokers have already...
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...Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Research Summary Introduction The research summary describes in detail how the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) conducts the trend analysis of the YRBSS data. The paper outline how the sampling is conducted by the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey a body formed by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The YRBSS is a body entrusted to monitor the health risk behavior associated with the six categories causative of morbidity and mortality among youth (Kann). These leading causes can be summarized as the behavior contributing to unintentional injuries, alcohol and other drug use, use of tobacco, sexual behavior leading to STIs and unintended pregnancy, unhealthy dietary behavior and physical inactivity. Stratified sampling The recent sampling assumes two- stage cluster sample design in the year 2013. The stratified two-stage cluster sample design presumes two stages. In the first stage the list of schools are stratified in accordance to the importance of the demographic variables, accompanied by replacement schools in case the targeted fails to participate. Then followed by of more intact class of the target or the participating school. This is in attempt to produce a representative sample of public and private school of students in grade 9-12. The sample target population of 39 states and 21 large urban school district of public and private school students. The sampling for the 2013 national YRBSS...
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...Facts have been shown that there has been a lot of teenage smoking around the world. Teenage smoking has caused a lot of asthma attacks and poor performance and schools. I think that school should have random drug tests because I feel it will help student and their daily activities. Students cannot focus well while being in a classroom while under the influence of marijuana or any other kind of drugs. Smoking can have an effect on a lot of teenager’s grades. There has been a big failure rate in the Unites States due to teenager’s low performance. Most of the low performance is due to drug use. Around the world a lot of schools have had killings. Someone under the influence brought a gun to school and caused deaths of students. If there be random...
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...Underage Smoking/tobacco products in western countries: As we all are very much familiar for such type of societal ulcer, which is being spread rapidly in this era. One of the most important things is that such bad thing is so much popular in teenager or below 18. According to the (fact about underage smoking by trail haws) approximately 25% of high school students in USA are smokers moreover 8% students use tobacco products. Another survey conducted for knowing the statistics of teenage smokers (American cancer society) as on 2013 reported 23% of high school student uses some type of tobacco by gender 18% of the students are girls and 27% are boys using tobacco. As focus of this article is teenager so know we move towards students of middle school 7% students appeared that do such bad practice and by gender ratio is almost equal. There are some thing in our society that causes to let teenager decisions to try tobacco might they wish to be look older, mature from irish health website (http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html) the adolescent behavior is very complex to predict and this is major hurdle that are faced in finding the exact motive behind the attraction of teenager towards smoking/tobacco products. Here some most popular causes that might be effect the adolescent minds peer pressure and desire to fit in with smokers ,media influence like advertisement , some are driven by curiosity , enjoyment of the effect of cigarette and negligence of health...
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