Relationship Between Peer Group Conformity and Self Confidence with Smoking Behavior on Teenagers

Statistics on cigarette smoker acutely appearance that over 500,000 humans die every year due to cigarette smoker complications and ailments. Approximately 50,000 humans die every year from accessory smoke effects. The statistics as well appearance that smokers are added acceptable to die 14 years beforehand as compared to non-smokers. This is the acumen why the altercation on the adjustment and accomplishing of a smoker ban has acrimonious up in the contempt days. It is agreeable to agenda that all smokers are acquainted with the dangers of smoking. It is an abnormality that is circuitous to explain. However, addiction can accomplish the smoker’s disciplinarian of the smoke habit. Smokers should apprehend that there are added austere things

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Many drugs are used, misused, and abused in American society today. Some of these carry stigma in the general population, forcing users into an underground drug subculture. Others are accepted and almost promoted under certain circumstances. Tobacco is one of those drugs. Tobacco will be discussed in the context of cigarette smoking. This is not to undermine the existence or danger of other forms of tobacco, but instead to have an exhaustive discussion of cigarette smoking and its societal impact. Cigarettes are a means of inhaling tobacco, where it enters the lungs and is absorbed through the blood vessels, traveling to the heart, from which it is finally pumped to the brain (Hogan, Gabrielsen, Luna, and Grothaus 2003:76). Cigarettes are detrimental to society because they not only affect the user who chooses to smoke; they impact people around them through second-hand and residual smoke. The damage done by cigarettes is not impossible to address. Successful prevention measures are already in place, but this paper intends to suggest other more direct measures, especially related to statutory regulations.

This essay will answer this question by featuring an exploration of the motivational psychological and sociological influences on the perpetuation, maintenance and cessation of smoking, primarily focusing on the application of the Health Belief Model (HBM) to smoking, briefly discussing the roles personality and self-efficacy play in influencing individuals’ attitudes towards smoking. The sociological aspect of this essay will examine how social factors impact individuals’ smoking behaviour, emphasising the role of gender, with reference to the Social–Learning Theory (SLT).

Significant number of people has been addicted to the habit of smoking despite of knowing the fact that it is injurious to health. In the past, it was considered as the taboos and only adult group was habituated but currently, it is common among both adolescent and adult population. Cigarette smoking is habit of inhaling smoke of cigarette and releasing it. A study by Gong (2011, pp.48) reveals that the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adult of age group 45-65years is higher than adolescent age group 15-24 years with 63% and 33.6% respectively.

In 2014, 24.6% of high school students reported that they used some type of tobacco product in the past 30 days (‘National Youth Tobacco Survey’). There are several factors that influence youth to begin using tobacco. Although it is clear that peer pressure can initiate smoking, multiple studies find that tobacco marketing causes an increase in youth tobacco use.

Teens smoking has been a public concern for centuries. In a recent article published earlier this year by Fox News, highlighted the rate and risk of teens smoking and the rise of e-cigarettes. One of the main question posed was, why do teens smoke? There is no definite answer,however; a few intelligible explanation has been given. Biology and developmental vulnerability are the few partially reason given. Biology studies shows that, until in their 20s and adolescents Brain is not equate enough to measure and assess assess race and long-term consequences.one reason is that teen are very vulnerable,which makes them an ideal target for cigarrette companies. luckly the federal government has set strict rules that limit tobacco companies who sets

The European Respiratory Journal stated that most teenagers who light up their first cigarettes are not fully aware of the health risks they are exposing themselves too. Some of the short term risks are mild to moderate respiratory issues and eventually tobacco dependence. The long term problem the teen face is the will continue to smoke throughout their adult life. Then they face long term chronic lung issues and many will die of a smoking related illness. This study also pointed out that teenagers who do not smoke are enrolled in sports and other activities, also the following reason contribute,

In referring to young adults, this population category is broad as it can entail college students, those entering workforce folowing graduation, young mothers as well as those in the military. Often, these population segments experience the stress of transition, a situation that is coupled by this being an age of experiementation. While these make them vilnerable to smoking influences, the tobacco industry complicates the situation through the vigourous promotion of its product. Exposure to marketing through promotions, advertising, the depiction in films significantly makes smoking be an acceptable trend among the young

There are environmental and personal variables that affect readiness to change and can lead to progress or relapse. These variables include smoking history, demographic variables and alcohol use, reasons for quitting, and psychosocial variables pertaining to peers, adults, coping, rebelliousness, and antismoking attitudes. For a smoker to progress from stage to stage, the appropriate process variables must be applied to that stage. This model was applied to young smokers, and it revealed that there were percentages of smokers in all stages. The researchers conducted a survey of 698 local high-school students that measured behaviors and attitudes concerning tobacco and alcohol use and created a study that focused on nonpunitive treatment and a caring group leader. The school resource officer and school administrators took on the authoritarian role. Treatment A involved three group sessions that educated participants about the problems associated with tobacco use through lectures, videos, demonstrations, and cooperative learning. Treatment B involved three interactive learning sessions that included participation in a small group activity, visiting a pulmonary rehabilitation facility, and a one-to-one

Teenage smoking can be a result of the influence of other teens, or maybe the amount of peer pressure. This can cause a teen to want to smoke or even think about smoking (Alcid, Arthur, page 1). Statistics show that 794 student and 22.4 percent of teens claimed to be tobacco users. (Alcid, Arthur, page 1). Teens tend to be more abrasive when smoking, and seem to act different while smoking and once they have gotten into the habit of smoking make it a constant thing. In 2003, 21.9 percent of high school students currently smoke cigarettes (Alcid, Arthur, page 1).

To illustrate, several studies have identified social controls whose absence has caused adolescents to experiment and initiate in tobacco use. Starting at home, the influence of parental attitude and behavior toward adolescent smoking has a major impact on adolescent smoking. Newman and Ward (1989) sampled 735 students from 12 schools in and around one moderately sized Midwestern city, 18.5% of the sample were smokers. In this study, Newman & Ward asked the students questions via a questionnaire in order to rate the parental attitudes. One question asked was, "With regards to my smoking cigarettes, my parents/guardian would: threaten to punish me if I smoked; haven't told me how they feel if I smoke? ; have told me they don't care if I smoke" (Newman and Ward, 1989, p. 150). Two-thirds of the students reported that both parents would be upset if they smoked. An interesting note was that about two-thirds of the nonsmoking adolescents reported parental disapproval versus one-half of the smoking adolescents. The analysis of the data revealed that when neither parent smoked and

The side of smoking that is rarely published will be explored in this paper. The side that only a smoker knows, not the side the governments and health agencies provide the news media with. This information is valuable because it is not very well exposed to the world. This essay will answer the question, “Why do you smoke cigarettes?”.

Tobacco; one of the most profitable products in history, an addictive substance, and a deadly killer. Smoking tobacco used to be a thing that was endorsed in American society. Now, with the new medical advances and knowledge, society has seen the side effects of smoking and how fatal it actually is. Teenagers have been one of the largest age groups that have been affected by smoking. After analyzing all possible reasons as to why teenagers would smoke while knowing it can affect their health, three possible reasons stuck out the most. Teenagers smoke despite knowing the health problems that originate from smoking because of peer pressure, an “invincibility” mentality, and seeing a role model or family member smoke.

According to a study of teen smokers, young men who smoke may be both compromising