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Effects Of Teenage Smoking Among Teenagers

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Let’s start off with the background of smoking. Tobacco has been used ever since 5000 BC in the Peruvian Andes. Moving on to more recent times, James Bonsack invented smoking in 1865. Commercials about smoking were made that year. In 1881, Bonsack invented the cigarette-making machine, popularizing smoking. Cigarettes were mostly sold to men in World War 1 & 2. By 1944, 300 billion cigarettes were being produced per year. In 1964, the Surgeon General of the U.S. said that cigarettes had nicotine in them and caused lung cancer, which made big-box companies put,"Cigarettes may be hazardous to your health." However, this didn’t stop everyone from smoking. Smoking has been declining the past 4 years minorly. Smoking among teens has …show more content…

15.4% of females and 15.6% of males have experimented smoking. 32.9% of females and 32.5% of males have tried smoking. Finally, 11.3% of females and 13.3% of males are regular smokers. The results for the females are a little bit better, but by a small margin.
Another study in this article compares the grades of teens related to their smoking status. The results are that 43% of teens who never smoked got A’s and 37% of teens who never smoked got B’s. Surprisingly, 18% of regular smokers got A’s, 10% got B’s, and 15% got C’s. This study could vary depending on the school, environment, and students, but is still evidence to consider.
Other studies in this article include, other drugs related to regular smoking teens, smoking among race, and other predictors of cigarette smoking.
Now that I’ve went into detail on all of the statistics, studies, and results that have been done on smoking; It’s time to tell the effects and diseases involved in this predicament.
The effects of smoking include loss of appetite, increased risk of blood cancer, poor vision, smelly hair, unhealthy teeth, mood stimulation, blood clotting, and anxiety and irritability emotions are more likely to happen. All of these effects alone, should keep everyone away from smoking, excluding the cost.
Before I go into the long-term effects, I’m going to explain what’s in cigarette. Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals,

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