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Smoking is injurious to health .But still its addiction is increasing very rapidly .This topic really

interests me that why do teenagers and students start smoking?.Even when they know that it is

nothing good but injurious to health . Many teenagers start smoking because of physiological

problems, social problems and their life styles.


INTRODUCTION:-


Every one dislikes smokers, but no one tries to know why did they start smoking. Truth is that

society is responsible for this habit. It may be ignorance, parental attitude, peer pressure, burden

of study etc. In my research I tried to find why teens still smoke in spite of all the warning and

knowledge , that it is injurious to health. Many people begin smoking when they are teenagers to

relief their stress; they found it in a pack of cigarette. Ninety percent of smokers start smoking at

or before 18 (Evans, 2006) . Approximately 3,000 teens will smoke their first cigarette, today. Of

those teens, 1,000 will end up dying as a result of smoking. The majority of people who smoke

wish they had never started it. In my survey when i asked questions to teens , majority said: It

relaxes me, It keeps me thin and I can quit any time I want.


PHYSIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS:-


The reasons why most teenagers begin to smoke deal mostly with physiological problems. There

are many type of physiological problem like following :
1. IGNORANCE EFFECT:-


If teens cannot get attention from their parents, love and friends they will try to get attention by

smoking (Teens and Smoking Tobacco , 2005). Teens that are ignored or are not accepted into a

group of peers often turn to cigarettes. Even with all the awareness of the harmful effects of

smoking. Teenagers sometimes feel that they will eventually quit before anything happens to

them even though 50 percent of adult smokers started before they turned 18, according to the

American Lung Association website (Teens and Smoking Tobacco , 2005).


   2. SELF MEDICINE TO IMPROVE MOOD:-


Some teens use cigarettes to self-medicate. But it isn’t well-known whether using cigarettes to

improve mood or functioning is associated with changes in depressive symptoms. Cigarette

temporary decreases stress level and improve mood but it have long term effects on teenagers. It

increases depression (Cigarette Habit and Depression in Teens who Smoke, Sep 2010).


   3. DEPRESSION:-


When teenagers get depressed and wants relief from stress, they find it in a pack of cigarette

(Gill, Despite Serious Consequences, Teens Still Start Smoking, 2004). To reduce stress Teens

get worried about their appearance, their feelings, and their roles. They must continuously deal

with their emerging sexuality, independence and personal values (Gill, Despite Serious

Consequences, Teens Still Start Smoking, 2004). All this uncertainty, as well as the attempts of

establishing their own independent identities and generating complex emotional, physical and

psychological turbulence in their day to day lives. Presence or absence of adequate, non-drug

ways of coping with various mood issues (feeling tense, sad, angry, and bored, etc.) increases

chances to use tobacco to change their mood and feel relaxing (Sep 2007). Many teens report
they smoke because it makes them feel better when they're under stress; when they're tense,

angry or worry.


SOCIAL PROBLEMS:-


                            People began smoking socially (at parties, after going out to eat, etc.)

with no intention of becoming addicted. They may have started by only smoking cigarettes that

addicted smokers offered to them in social situations, justifying it with statements like “well, as

long as I’m not buying my own and smoke all the time, it’s okay.” While some people can pull

this off, others cannot, and for them social smoking is just a greased chute leading to full-blown

addiction. Following are some social problems for which teenagers start smoking:


    1.PARENTAL INFLUENCE:-


The family is full of energy in providing best conditions for the growth and health of children.

Love and affection are necessary for the psychological development of the child. The more

parents smoke and/or drink, the more their sons or daughters are likely to smoke and/or drink as

students. The mothers' smoking appears to exert a stronger influence than the fathers (Flower,

May 2010)'. Teenagers who have parents who smoke are more likely to take it up. In fact,

according to the Family First Aid Organization's website, 98 percent of teenage smokers have

parents who smoke (Flower, May 2010).


    2.PEER PRESSURE:-


Growing up age is a confusing period in a person's lifetime. Young people challenge authority,

refuse parental control and adopt the behavior of their peers (Gill, Despite Serious

Consequences, Teens Still Start Smoking, 2004). Another reason people start smoking is peer
pressure. While everyone responds to peer pressure differently, most kids are highly susceptible

to its influences when they are in their early teens. This is when they care more about the

opinions of their friends than anything else and will do almost anything to stay in their friends’

good grace. A strong motivator to start smoking is a feeling of being left out, so teens start to

smoke just to fit in with the crowd. Often they feel encouraged and pressured or even teased and

taunted into smoking. Many times their peers encourage them to start, and even show them how

it is done, even how to do things such as blowing smoke rings etc. Teens smoke because their

friends do. If a teenager spends most of his time with friends who smoke, there is a good chance

he will start as well. Good old-fashioned peer pressure is still one of the strongest forces that

compels teenagers to start the habit (Cigarette Habit and Depression in Teens who Smoke, Sep

2010)


    3.ADVERTISEMENT/FILM STAR ATTRACTION:-


Advertising Still Attracts growing up teenagers to start Smoking. Watching their favorite movie

stars light up is having significant impacts on young people. The images of Hollywood stars and

musicians smoking have had an influence on people's decisions to start smoking (Smoking -

Exploiting Children, Oct 2004). People, and especially young people, see these images, and

imagine how cool they would look if they smoked. In a research numbers of cigarette smoking

activity in 601 popular films released in the U.S. from 2001 to 2009, and they found an average

of five occurrences of tobacco use per movie. Kids are twice as likely to be influenced by

advertising as they are from peer pressure. They are three times more sensitive to advertising

than adults. Norway banned advertising and reduced by half the number of children who started

smoking.
4.PERSONAL INCOME/PART TIME JOB:-


High-school students who take part-time jobs for pocket money may be more likely to start

smoking than teens that don't join the after-school and weekend workforce, a study suggests.

What we found were the kids who worked more than 10 hours a week on average had an earlier

age of initiation. So they started to smoke ahead of their peers. Second is that they can now buy

cigarettes, as before they may have not had the means, the money, to buy cigarettes


LIFE STYLE:-


   1. FEEL MORE MATURE OR ADULT:-


Teens smoke because it makes them feel older and more mature. They're on the trajectory to

becoming an adult smoker." Smoking is allowed only after teenage so they feel mature or adult

while smoking.


   2. LOOK COOL & FASHIONABLE:-


By far the biggest reason people start smoking is the desire to look cool. To a twelve-to-sixteen-

year-old kid without much life experience, smoking a cigarette feels like a cool, “mature” thing

to do (Flower, May 2010). This is especially true if most of the adults in his or her life (parents,

relatives, bosses at work, etc.) smoke cigarettes and have for most of their lives. Teenagers are

still creatures of imitations, and if they perceive cigarette smoking as the “adult” thing to do, they

will do it. Teens also want to fit in with peer groups , they admire-the "cool" kids-and many of

them will do what "cool" kids do. Some teens believe that smoking makes them more popular,

"cool", attractive, sexy or rugged (Evans, 2006).
3. RISK BEHAVIOR:-


In most of studies on the multiple risk behaviour, tobacco smoking is considered as one of the

main components. Teens are more likely to engage in high-risk behaviors and do unfriendly

things than other age groups. Because they typically feel strong, impossible to get harm, fearless

to deal with accidents and illnesses. They often feel that nothing bad will happen to them

(Samilian, 2007). The belief that a few cigarettes can't hurt and make them addicted, they think

that they could quit at any time. It is about image more than anything else as most people would

agree that the first cigarette is certainly not pleasant. It becomes a challenge to overcome the

coughing, burning throat, the choking, the burning of the eyes (Newell, 2010).


FOR WEIGHT CONTROL:


Many studies have reported that teenager girls and young women smoke to control their weight

(Samilian, 2007). In high school, smokers were no more likely than nonsmokers to be trying to

lose weight. 85 percent of informants replied that they had never smoked as a way to control

their weight. One-half of informants at age 21 believed that smoking as a weight-control strategy

(Newell, 2010). Many studies have reported that teenager girls and young women smoke to

control their weight. In high school, smokers were no more likely than nonsmokers to be trying

to lose weight. 85 percent of informants replied that they had never smoked as a way to control

their weight. One-half of informants at age 21 believed that smoking as a weight-control

strategy. The image of what is considered beautiful is stick-thin, Having boney arms and legs. It

is the model that most women right now are trying so hard to lose weight, so much that they

would do anything to lose the extra weight.

Some of these women subscribe to various diets, While some exert all effort to burn away the
extra weight. some take diet teas and diet pills, and some even go through surgical process just to

suck the fat out of their bodies.

Unfortunately, Some of those women use smoking to lose weight. Why smoking? It is because

smoking is one of the fastest ways out there to lose weight. Smoking accelerates weight loss

because it kills the desire for food and quickly burns the extra weight off the body's system.


  Conclusion :


                 Smoking is injurious to health no doubt , but still teens and students get addicted

to it .The reasons for it are that they start smoking due to the physiological problems including

depression ,tensions and social problems .As far as their life styles are concerned , then it also

causes teens to smoke .
Bibliography
Cigarette Habit and Depression in Teens who Smoke. (Sep 2010). Smoking News .

Evans, A. (2006). Smoking and teenagers.

Flower, M. (May 2010). Kiara Walker.

Gill, J. E. (2004). Despite Serious Consequences, Teens Still Start Smoking.

Newell, J. (2010). Why Do People Start Smoking?

Samilian, L. (2007). Why Do Teenagers Start Smoking? E How.

(Sep 2007). The Canadian Press.

Smoking - Exploiting Children. (Oct 2004). CBC News .

(2005). Teens and Smoking Tobacco .

Tobacco & Marijuana. (Jan 2010). Psychology .

Ellickson, PL. (Jan 2006). High-risk behaviors associated with early smoking.

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why student start smoking

  • 1. "SMOKING" Smoking is injurious to health .But still its addiction is increasing very rapidly .This topic really interests me that why do teenagers and students start smoking?.Even when they know that it is nothing good but injurious to health . Many teenagers start smoking because of physiological problems, social problems and their life styles. INTRODUCTION:- Every one dislikes smokers, but no one tries to know why did they start smoking. Truth is that society is responsible for this habit. It may be ignorance, parental attitude, peer pressure, burden of study etc. In my research I tried to find why teens still smoke in spite of all the warning and knowledge , that it is injurious to health. Many people begin smoking when they are teenagers to relief their stress; they found it in a pack of cigarette. Ninety percent of smokers start smoking at or before 18 (Evans, 2006) . Approximately 3,000 teens will smoke their first cigarette, today. Of those teens, 1,000 will end up dying as a result of smoking. The majority of people who smoke wish they had never started it. In my survey when i asked questions to teens , majority said: It relaxes me, It keeps me thin and I can quit any time I want. PHYSIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS:- The reasons why most teenagers begin to smoke deal mostly with physiological problems. There are many type of physiological problem like following :
  • 2. 1. IGNORANCE EFFECT:- If teens cannot get attention from their parents, love and friends they will try to get attention by smoking (Teens and Smoking Tobacco , 2005). Teens that are ignored or are not accepted into a group of peers often turn to cigarettes. Even with all the awareness of the harmful effects of smoking. Teenagers sometimes feel that they will eventually quit before anything happens to them even though 50 percent of adult smokers started before they turned 18, according to the American Lung Association website (Teens and Smoking Tobacco , 2005). 2. SELF MEDICINE TO IMPROVE MOOD:- Some teens use cigarettes to self-medicate. But it isn’t well-known whether using cigarettes to improve mood or functioning is associated with changes in depressive symptoms. Cigarette temporary decreases stress level and improve mood but it have long term effects on teenagers. It increases depression (Cigarette Habit and Depression in Teens who Smoke, Sep 2010). 3. DEPRESSION:- When teenagers get depressed and wants relief from stress, they find it in a pack of cigarette (Gill, Despite Serious Consequences, Teens Still Start Smoking, 2004). To reduce stress Teens get worried about their appearance, their feelings, and their roles. They must continuously deal with their emerging sexuality, independence and personal values (Gill, Despite Serious Consequences, Teens Still Start Smoking, 2004). All this uncertainty, as well as the attempts of establishing their own independent identities and generating complex emotional, physical and psychological turbulence in their day to day lives. Presence or absence of adequate, non-drug ways of coping with various mood issues (feeling tense, sad, angry, and bored, etc.) increases chances to use tobacco to change their mood and feel relaxing (Sep 2007). Many teens report
  • 3. they smoke because it makes them feel better when they're under stress; when they're tense, angry or worry. SOCIAL PROBLEMS:- People began smoking socially (at parties, after going out to eat, etc.) with no intention of becoming addicted. They may have started by only smoking cigarettes that addicted smokers offered to them in social situations, justifying it with statements like “well, as long as I’m not buying my own and smoke all the time, it’s okay.” While some people can pull this off, others cannot, and for them social smoking is just a greased chute leading to full-blown addiction. Following are some social problems for which teenagers start smoking: 1.PARENTAL INFLUENCE:- The family is full of energy in providing best conditions for the growth and health of children. Love and affection are necessary for the psychological development of the child. The more parents smoke and/or drink, the more their sons or daughters are likely to smoke and/or drink as students. The mothers' smoking appears to exert a stronger influence than the fathers (Flower, May 2010)'. Teenagers who have parents who smoke are more likely to take it up. In fact, according to the Family First Aid Organization's website, 98 percent of teenage smokers have parents who smoke (Flower, May 2010). 2.PEER PRESSURE:- Growing up age is a confusing period in a person's lifetime. Young people challenge authority, refuse parental control and adopt the behavior of their peers (Gill, Despite Serious Consequences, Teens Still Start Smoking, 2004). Another reason people start smoking is peer
  • 4. pressure. While everyone responds to peer pressure differently, most kids are highly susceptible to its influences when they are in their early teens. This is when they care more about the opinions of their friends than anything else and will do almost anything to stay in their friends’ good grace. A strong motivator to start smoking is a feeling of being left out, so teens start to smoke just to fit in with the crowd. Often they feel encouraged and pressured or even teased and taunted into smoking. Many times their peers encourage them to start, and even show them how it is done, even how to do things such as blowing smoke rings etc. Teens smoke because their friends do. If a teenager spends most of his time with friends who smoke, there is a good chance he will start as well. Good old-fashioned peer pressure is still one of the strongest forces that compels teenagers to start the habit (Cigarette Habit and Depression in Teens who Smoke, Sep 2010) 3.ADVERTISEMENT/FILM STAR ATTRACTION:- Advertising Still Attracts growing up teenagers to start Smoking. Watching their favorite movie stars light up is having significant impacts on young people. The images of Hollywood stars and musicians smoking have had an influence on people's decisions to start smoking (Smoking - Exploiting Children, Oct 2004). People, and especially young people, see these images, and imagine how cool they would look if they smoked. In a research numbers of cigarette smoking activity in 601 popular films released in the U.S. from 2001 to 2009, and they found an average of five occurrences of tobacco use per movie. Kids are twice as likely to be influenced by advertising as they are from peer pressure. They are three times more sensitive to advertising than adults. Norway banned advertising and reduced by half the number of children who started smoking.
  • 5. 4.PERSONAL INCOME/PART TIME JOB:- High-school students who take part-time jobs for pocket money may be more likely to start smoking than teens that don't join the after-school and weekend workforce, a study suggests. What we found were the kids who worked more than 10 hours a week on average had an earlier age of initiation. So they started to smoke ahead of their peers. Second is that they can now buy cigarettes, as before they may have not had the means, the money, to buy cigarettes LIFE STYLE:- 1. FEEL MORE MATURE OR ADULT:- Teens smoke because it makes them feel older and more mature. They're on the trajectory to becoming an adult smoker." Smoking is allowed only after teenage so they feel mature or adult while smoking. 2. LOOK COOL & FASHIONABLE:- By far the biggest reason people start smoking is the desire to look cool. To a twelve-to-sixteen- year-old kid without much life experience, smoking a cigarette feels like a cool, “mature” thing to do (Flower, May 2010). This is especially true if most of the adults in his or her life (parents, relatives, bosses at work, etc.) smoke cigarettes and have for most of their lives. Teenagers are still creatures of imitations, and if they perceive cigarette smoking as the “adult” thing to do, they will do it. Teens also want to fit in with peer groups , they admire-the "cool" kids-and many of them will do what "cool" kids do. Some teens believe that smoking makes them more popular, "cool", attractive, sexy or rugged (Evans, 2006).
  • 6. 3. RISK BEHAVIOR:- In most of studies on the multiple risk behaviour, tobacco smoking is considered as one of the main components. Teens are more likely to engage in high-risk behaviors and do unfriendly things than other age groups. Because they typically feel strong, impossible to get harm, fearless to deal with accidents and illnesses. They often feel that nothing bad will happen to them (Samilian, 2007). The belief that a few cigarettes can't hurt and make them addicted, they think that they could quit at any time. It is about image more than anything else as most people would agree that the first cigarette is certainly not pleasant. It becomes a challenge to overcome the coughing, burning throat, the choking, the burning of the eyes (Newell, 2010). FOR WEIGHT CONTROL: Many studies have reported that teenager girls and young women smoke to control their weight (Samilian, 2007). In high school, smokers were no more likely than nonsmokers to be trying to lose weight. 85 percent of informants replied that they had never smoked as a way to control their weight. One-half of informants at age 21 believed that smoking as a weight-control strategy (Newell, 2010). Many studies have reported that teenager girls and young women smoke to control their weight. In high school, smokers were no more likely than nonsmokers to be trying to lose weight. 85 percent of informants replied that they had never smoked as a way to control their weight. One-half of informants at age 21 believed that smoking as a weight-control strategy. The image of what is considered beautiful is stick-thin, Having boney arms and legs. It is the model that most women right now are trying so hard to lose weight, so much that they would do anything to lose the extra weight. Some of these women subscribe to various diets, While some exert all effort to burn away the
  • 7. extra weight. some take diet teas and diet pills, and some even go through surgical process just to suck the fat out of their bodies. Unfortunately, Some of those women use smoking to lose weight. Why smoking? It is because smoking is one of the fastest ways out there to lose weight. Smoking accelerates weight loss because it kills the desire for food and quickly burns the extra weight off the body's system. Conclusion : Smoking is injurious to health no doubt , but still teens and students get addicted to it .The reasons for it are that they start smoking due to the physiological problems including depression ,tensions and social problems .As far as their life styles are concerned , then it also causes teens to smoke .
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