How Does Tobacco Affect Teenagers?

This essay will discuss the issue of smoking in adolescents from the Australian society. The discussion will include a recent campaign that has been created to cut the morbidity rates of smoking in adolescents from the Western Australian (WA) region. The campaign “Smarter than Smoking” provided an effective health promotion strategies to reduce tobacco enhancement for adolescents aged 10-15 years old. The essay will provide a better analysis on tobacco consumption in adolescents. Thus, portraying the potential impacts of smoking at a young age in the Western Australian society. As well as, a discussion about the implementation of the program “Smarter than Smoking” and its effectiveness in society will be further analyzed.

Tobacco is a plant grown for its leaves, which are dried and fermented for the use of tobacco products (www.drugabuse.gov). Tobacco can be used in many ways, such as smoked (cigar, cigarette, pipe), chewed (smokeless), sniffed (powder) Tobacco is considered to be a licit drug, when smoked it can become addictive. Cigarette contains more than 4,000 chemicals and there are three main chemicals: tar, carbon dioxide, and nicotine. Nicotine is the main ingredient that makes tobacco a drug. The effect of nicotine can cause cigarette smoking to become addictive and a dependence substance.

With such an expansive history in Connecticut, the subject of tobacco is just as encompassing. With roots in Windsor colonial history through its height in the 1950s, sources try to capture it all at a surface level. Scholars have studied tobacco over time evaluating its role in the community at that moment in time. Over a variety of sources, overall the response to tobacco in Windsor has been positive as it serves as both an economic influence and a cultural one as well. Starting at one of the most recent sources, Brianna Dunlap looks at the entire Connecticut River valley as the backdrop as Connecticut’s tobacco industry in Connecticut Valley Tobacco. Published in 2016, Dunlap captures tobacco’s history starting at its roots in the 1600s through Cuba’s reopening trade ports in 2015. This book serves to establish Windsor’s connection with tobacco and how it changed over time to match the changing landscape around the tobacco sheds.

Linnan and Steckler (2002) describe the following key process evaluation components: Context-aspects of the larger social environment that may affect implementation; Reach-the proportion of the intended audience to whom the program is actually delivered; Dose-delivered-The amount of intended units of each program component that is delivered; Dose-received-the extent to which participants engage with the program; Fidelity-the extent to which the intervention was delivered as intended ( Bartholomew et al., 2011. p.526).

Smoking cigarettes leads to mental diseases and casualties in the United States with more than 480,000 individuals in the United States dying from cigarettes and about 41,000 deaths from second-hand smoking (CDC). After John Rolfe introduced the commercial crop in Virginia in the 1600’s, tobacco became the leading exported crop for the colony. Tobacco’s initial purpose was for “pipe-smoking, chewing, and snuff,” (CNN) and to cure individuals with health issues. With the abundant amount of tobacco, smoking became inexpensive and easy to access across the nation. Along with the accessibility and reasonable price, smoking became a huge issue for individuals ranging from teens to adults. An advertisement campaign, called TheTruth, created this visual advertisement of the teenager smoking a cigarette and the smoke of the cigarette illustrating a gun facing the teenagers head. From analyzing the advertisement, one can conclude about the high fatality rate of young teenagers smoking in the United States. The advertisement campaign focuses on the effects smoking has on teenagers in America. The creator of the visual uses a contrast between dark and light colors to portray negativity behind teen smoking, the use of symbolism to depict a gun from cigarette smoke conveys how each objects functions similarly, and the display of the text on the right hand side of the visual invokes fear to teen smokers.

Inhale deeply. The psychologically addictive gases zoom through your mouth and fleetingly fill your lungs: “one, two, three, …”. Exhale lightly then inhale deeply. The hot, heavy smoke begins to take over your lungs, your nose, your mouth, leaving behind a robust, yet enticing taste: “one, two, three, …”. Exhale lightly then inhale deeply. The “buzz” lasts for a few minutes, but the relaxation lingers for a couple of hours. Cravings are satisfied, distractions are shut out, and troubles seemingly blow away. The smoke inhaled and the air breathed becomes indistinguishable necessities that control you. The key difference between smoking and the air we breathe, however, is that one is required for life and the other purely satisfies an internal

Breathe in. Breathe out. It’s been said that for every cigarette a person smokes it takes seven minutes away from his or her life. Nicotine is known to be very addictive and kills hundreds of people with diverse diseases each year. Whatever may draw a person to start smoking, there are numerous effects of those breathes. The use of tobacco, specifically smoking cigarettes, is found to have no benefits to human health or the environment. The unknown chemicals and ingredients will leave the consumer with lasting effects.

Tabaco use is a major health issue that affects adolescents and young adults today. “The use of tobacco products represents one of the most widespread, high-risk health behaviors for this group” (SITE). Tobacco usage in adolescents and young adults is a big deal due to the fact that “The vast majority of people become dependent on nicotine develop that dependency before the age of 18”(SITE). Those that smoke less than five cigarettes daily experience some type of withdraw faster and more often than adults (SITE). Nicotine dependency is extremely high causing the “first time to cigarette” to be shorter, increasing the need/want. This trend has little financial impact in the beginning, however health care costs overall would increase over time.

Tobacco is an addictive drug that has many forms, E-cigarettes, cigars, and pipes are some examples. It is usually smoked. Nearly 3000 teens under the age of eighteen have their first taste of tobacco every day, and 700 of them will become regular daily smokers. Smoking that develops in the teenage years is bad for their health and life. Teens who smoke are more likely to end up taking the bad habit on to their adult life. Their bad habit is not only harming them but others around them.

What does it mean to he healthy? Does is mean you are in shape? Does it mean you eat right? Does it mean you don’t use tobacco? Tobacco can be a major health risk for all users. Whether it's smoking cigarettes, smoking cigars, or using chewing or spit tobacco, they all have major health risks attached to them. There are many ways to avoid these harmful tobacco products. You can have healthy alternatives. Another way is knowing when you are being pressured into using tobacco by your peers. If you know when you are being peer pressured, you can stop it, and save yourself major health problems. Some of these health problems can be fatal. Cancers, lung destroying diseases, and many more come in that cigarette box. Every time you smoke a cigarette, you are taking 5-20 minutes off

My presenting problem is my addiction to cigarettes. I was 13 years old the first time I smoked a cigarette. My addiction began due to peer pressure. Smoking was my way of building social relationships. However, soon I was smoking more or an equal amount of cigarettes than my friends. Since the age of 19, I have been smoking twenty cigarettes a day, which is a pack of cigarettes daily. My addiction to cigarettes is a problem because it is affecting my health. I become fatigued due to smoking. When I do not smoke, I become stressed. Smoking also damages my cardio-respiratory system. In addition, smoking is affecting me economically. I spend between eight to ten dollars a day on cigarettes. Also, my smoking habit is affecting me socially. Before smoking was my way of connecting with friends, now I hardly find someone who smokes and is comfortable with me smoking nearby. Finally, it interrupts some of my activities like studying. When I am in the middle of an activity, like doing homework, I have to interrupt the activity because I am craving a cigarette. Recently, I have attempted to balance my unhealthy behavior with healthy behaviors. I attempt to exercise and eat healthier. But, I am not exercising as much as I wish. Thus, my desired outcome for my desired change behavior is to decrease my daily cigarette consumption and/or increase my exercise frequency. During nine sessions, I worked to treat my presenting problem as a client of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). To

Although it remains a large portion of the U.S’ economy, tobacco smoking can lead to a variety of diseases and disorders that affect the user. The effects of smoking tobacco not only affect the user but surrounding people as well: permanently destroying their lungs and children, increasing the chances of diseases and of cancer.

Tobacco intake one of the main source of death that could be avoided worldwide, taking lives of 6 million people yearly and to reach approximately 8 million death per year by 2020 globally. It is imperative to note that, tobacco smoking has never had a safe level and majorly increases the risk factor for utmost chronic illnesses including blood disease, stroke, protracted respiratory diseases and most of the cancer related diseases. Mass-produced of cigarettes have become most common type of tobacco consumed by many, with a daily sale of up to 15 billion cigarettes a day, other kinds (like chewing tobacco available in southern part of Africa, partly in Asia - known as Shisha and Middle East) most of them are common in particular areas. The study has shown that the life expectancy of a smoking person is always lessen by seven

The substance issue many people face is tobacco. According to Cambridge Dictionary, tobacco is a “type of plant, or the dried leaves of this plant which are prepared and smoked in cigarettes, pipes, or cigars, or sometimes chewed”. Cambridge Dictionary forgot to mention that tobacco is a big health risk. The amount of health problems tobacco can cause is unbelieveable. Tobacco was originally used for medical issues and ceremonies. For awhile, people thought tobacco was for medical purposes until an article in 1952 was published. The article stated the health risks of tobacco. Since the article was published, the cigarette sales declined. A couple of years later, the tobacco industry's responded with “healthier smoking” by putting filters in the cigarettes which led the sales to increase. Consumers spend a lot of money on tobacco. Money becomes an issue for consumers when tobacco is being purchased every week or two. Usually, tobacco costs seven dollars. If a consumer bought tobacco every week for fifty-two weeks, the consumer would spend $1,820 a year on tobacco. Today, in order to purchase tobacco a person must be 18 and older. Still, anyone could find a way to get tobacco. Smoking has been limited in public places. There are designated smoking areas for people now, which decreases health risks of other citizens. Advertising tobacco has lessened since companies have been showing tobacco as “kid friendly”. Kids still see people using tobacco, so the consumers are basically

United States’ attention has shifted from communicable disease to chronic disease throughout the years. One of the leading cause of death today has been cardiovascular disease caused mainly by tobacco. Tobacco is the leading cause of chronic disease and death in the United States. Today, not only are traditional cigarettes playing a toll on one’s health but so are E-cigarettes. E-cigarettes are different compared to tobacco, as they contain liquefied nicotine and they produce vapor as opposed to harmful smoke from cigarettes. Moreover, vaping has little effect on the lungs unlike tobacco. E-cigarettes are devices that allow users to inhale an aerosol containing nicotine or other substances. Nicotine is one of the more than 4,000 chemicals in cigarettes and is what causes users to become so addicted. As nicotine stimulates the body, it speeds up the nervous system. According to National Institute of Health (NIH), “Each year, approximately 443,000 Americans die from tobacco-related illnesses (2016). Some of the health effects of smoking e-cigarettes and tobacco are that it causes most lung cancer, can cause attacks for those who have asthma, heart disease, impaired immune system, shorter lifespan, emphysema and other chronic disease, etc,. High concentrations of nicotine may put non-users at risk for second hand smoking, particularly children.