Social Effects Of Tobacco Smoking

There is presently much controversy regarding tobacco consumption and the effect that it has on first hand smokers and on the world as a whole. While millions of people from around the world are smokers and while the masses are generally familiar with the effects that tobacco has on society, people continue to accept smoking as one of the principal vices that society has to deal with. It is certainly worrying that people are presented with the harmful effects of smoking at a young age and that many come to ignore these effects later in their lives. Addiction and society's pressures influence individuals in expressing little to no interest in their wellbeing and in the wellbeing of individuals around them.

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.

Over the last few decades, tobacco and nicotine prevention efforts have risen to an all time high. Prevention efforts focus on education to the public of the negative effects on one’s health when using tobacco and nicotine products, as well as with pleas to healthcare policymakers to increase restrictions on product manufacturing and sales. One policy effort growing in popularity in the United States is called Tobacco 21, which proposes to raise the legal age of purchase for consumers of tobacco and nicotine products to 21 years of age (Farber, Pakhale, & Neptune, 2016). Farber, Pakhale, and Neptune (2016) state that 90% of tobacco and nicotine users begin smoking before the age of 18, with 99% of users starting before the age of 26. Lower smoking cessation rates are associated with earlier ages of initiation and the tobacco industry is known to target youth in advertisement of these products lending to the early age of initiation. The tobacco industry themselves admit that increasing the age allowed for purchase to exclude youth would substantially effect their sales. Tobacco 21 laws also deter adolescents from gaining tobacco or nicotine products from friends 18 to 21 years of age, which is the most likely age group to supply younger teens. With this knowledge, placing tighter restrictions on consumers younger than 21 years of age, using the Tobacco 21 policy, may deter tobacco and nicotine initiation in hopes to prevent individual use at all in the future (Farber

Because of the alluring advertising to high school teens from TV and friends, over “23 percent of high school students have used a form of tobacco in the past month, selecting from flavored cigars, electronic cigarettes, and other products” (“Teen Smoking”). Because Vaping Companies, such as JUUL and PHIX, are advertised to teens saying the device is smart and satisfying, high school students underestimate the long term effects of e-cigarettes and tobacco. The number of students who use an e-cigarette every month has exponentially increased because the companies do not address the health effects, but rather, the companies only goal is to increase revenue for themselves. In 2015, vaping companies, gas stations, and grocery stores made an estimated total of “3.3 billion dollars” on vaping devices (“U.S. Vapor Market”). This number, which has continued to increase, is largely formed by teen E-Cigarette users. Although this income number would increase if these machines were legalized for minors, companies would most likely use this money for more advertising, attracting even more high school

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2013, there were 42.1 million people in the United States that smoked cigarettes. Smoking causes many diseases such as cancer, heart

In our communities, the youth can easily identified any of tobacco’s product. The author, Steven Reinberg, published , Tobacco Companies Targeting Teens, Study Says, states that the tobacco product, Marlboro, is highly purchased by high school students according to usnews.com. Mr. McGoldrick states that the three brands, 90 percent is being marketed. Most companies hold their ground saying that their tobacco products are not meant to bought by youth, but somehow still managed to in our children’s hands, in his article, Tobacco Companies Targeting Teens, Study Says (steven Reinberg). According to Erin Brodwin, author of “Tobacco Companies Still Target Youth despite A Globally Treaty”, states that children all over the world can identify the tobacco brands. Not only are children picking up their ideas from television, but also from public. Children knowing which brands shows how serious the addiction can be. Seeing how easily the product being shown to the youth is another way of starting. If less smokers are seen in public, the lower the numbers will

In D.A.R.E. I learned not to use Tobacco because there is 200 known harmful chemicals in 1 cigarette. More than 400,000 Americans die because of the toxins in cigarettes. Almost 50,000 deaths per year can be attributed to second-hand smoke.The effects on your body are: tobacco interferes with the way the brain works, smoking causes heart disease, smokers have more colds and upper respiratory problems, smoking causes lung cancer, chewing tobacco causes tooth loss and yellow teeth.

“In every other state that has significantly raised cigarette taxes, smoking rates have gone down, and the US Surgeon General said this especially true among kids” (Yeson56). If the prices is at higher rate for the youth not being able to afford, the rates will decrease. As the years goes by, in the state of California, the youth becomes attached to their deadly products. Eventually one-third of the consumers die from deadly diseases (Yeson56). In recently studies, many die from the tobacco production. Not only adults, but also our youth. The ones who are suppose to be future generation of our country. If tobacco production is killing the youth, then a barrier must be built and that's raising the price for a better price. Public health professor, Dina Borzekowski, a graduate from University of Maryland, College Park, states that children are highly interested in Tobacco’s marketing (Erin Brodwin). Even a health professor can see that tobacco production can be easily attach to the youth and knowing the cost, many can easily have some in

The extent to which tobacco advertising contributes to the increase in smoking habits has been debated and still is being debated. The focus is heavily on the degree to which the advertising affects adolescents. Previous research which is explored above, suggests significant relationships between smoking behavior among youth and these advertisements. Tobacco companies on the other hand, have tried to prove their ads are not directed towards our youth. Specifically, the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company has run full page ads in national magazines advising youth to not smoke. They have asserted

All you have to do is look through magazines or walk through a gas station in an area close to a school to see subtle advertising hints targeting our youth. Some examples of this type of targeting are placing tobacco products or signs mentioning them lower on the shelves or near candy, displaying pictures that make youth feel that smoking is a way for people to express their independence. At a young age, children are easily swayed and then by the time they are in their late teens those once upon a time children, are young adults who are addicted and wish they had never touched a cigarette. The tobacco industry knows that Our government should be helping put an end to the excessive amounts of young adults who are developing depression from the way tobacco harms your appearance, the poverty and debt some families are in, and the amount of preventable deaths that are happening each year due to tobacco products. Together we can inform our youth about the harmful effects tobacco can cause and prevent further generations from ever getting hooked on these

five percent of those who were surveyed said that they had smoked over 100 cigarettes which allowed them to be classified as an “established smoker” (Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, 2013). This study was a big step in showing how tobacco ads can have a negative influence on our nation's youth population. Parenting also plays a big part in influencing a student's view towards tobacco products. Schwarz writes in his article how if a student's parent smokes regularly, they will more than likely pick up that habit somewhere between the ages of 13 and 21 (2005). A child looks up to their parent and strive to be like them and if that child sees them doing the wrong thing, what’s going to stop that child from thinking “ well my parents did it so i guess I can too”. Parents who smoke around their kids are introducing them to tobacco very early in their life. This can have a harmful effect on them if they decide to start using tobacco products at a very young age because they saw their parents doing it so it must be

Each year it is stated that 438000 Americans die from nicotine addiction and poisoning. Increased use of tobacco products and cigarettes have been as a results of advertisements that portray smoking as something good especially among the younger people. Many others are suffering from cancer caused by the chemicals in the cigarettes.

Tobacco use is a serious social and behavioral problem in public health. The use of tobacco causes many health issues. According to the CDC website cigarette smoking harms every organ in the body, it is the leading cause of diseases. Every year they are 480,000 deaths each year in the United States due to cigarette smoking. Smoking causes nine out of ten people to die with lung cancer. Smoking can causes many respiratory disease, cancer almost anywhere in your body, affect pregnancy.

Tobacco use among adolescents has been increasing over the years due to marketing strategies that target adolescents and attempt to promote beliefs that influence smoking behaviors. Many of the smoking behaviors are established in adolescents and young adults who are more influenced by exposure to promotional marketing advertisements such as billboards, transit ads, and other strategies that impose acceptable social norms among their peers. According to the CDC, in 2012, 6.7% of middle school students and 23.3% of high school students were currently consuming a variety of tobacco products that included cigarettes, hookahs, smokeless tobacco, and pipes. Also, those who are initially occasional smokers become more likely to continue smoking in the future (CDC, 2012). E-cigarette advertising has also targeted youth tobacco use by increased target rating points 256% from 2011 to 2013 (Duke et al.,2014). The study attributes the trends in smoking to television advertising that influence the acceptability of using alternate tobacco products. According to Choi et al (2014), tobacco direct mail marketing was associated an increase in cigarette use among non-smokers and a lower change in smoking reduction among smokers in the sample. Although prior research has been conducted to investigate how tobacco marketing influences smoking behaviors, specific advertising techniques that attracted adolescent consumers were not determined. This study hypothesized that television

Tobacco has been used for over two thousand years among South American and North American countries. In South America, the Mayan culture found different uses for tobacco such as using it for religious ceremonies, medication, as well as recreational purposes. Over time, these cultures gave tobacco as gifts to welcome foreigners to America. Eventually, the foreign countries became familiar with the plant’s purposes and saw how the people abused it. With the widespread diffusion of the powerful plant, a label was created led to plant being illegal in several countries (McCay and Kittleson, 113). Maybe it was because of the effects it had on the people who started to smoked tobacco. Smoking can have numerous effects on the human body such as addictions, smoke related health problems, and the introduction to other drugs. Many people do not realize that cigarettes are not one of the most known and identifiable addictions in society, (DiFranza, 1) but is one of the factors that lead to other addiction.