Tobacco Use Among Adolescents And Young Adults

Cigarette companies use trends, age, culture, and other things to hook a person to their product. The companies mainly target teens because of their ignorance and teens who get addicted that young will likely be customers for life. Tobacco is promoted on almost every television network and 1/3 of adolescent experimentation with smoking results from the advertising. (Tobacco Free Broome and Tioga) Not only are cigarettes promoted on TV, but their promoted throughout everyone’s lifestyle. Maybe a role model you have, maybe one of your parents, or maybe a celebrity you enjoy following... any one of these people could smoke and the mindset of many is, “if they’re doing it, so can I”. Mike Magee smoked his first L&M cigarette when he nine years old, his parents smoked and kept cigarettes in the house and therefore they were accessible. He and his siblings said that learning how to smoke was

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 ScienceDaily, Anti-Smoking campaigns aimed towards kids are most effective when convincing youth that their friends are listening to the ads (1) . While outdated and ineffective ads focus on telling individuals to avoid tobacco or die horribly, Hye-Jin Paek, assistant professor at UGA College of Journalism and Mass Communication, says new advertisements across the world focus on changing the social norms surrounded by smoking. Instead of an ad saying “every cigarette you smoke takes nine minutes off your life,” these billboards could read “over 66% of Kentucky's high school students are smoke free.” This is a great example of a shifting focus from health risks associated with tobacco to how a young adult's peers feel about tobacco. A social standard is set for high school students when ads clearly state that the vast majority of teens aren't smoking.

Tobacco is a well debated issue that is debated daily in the media. Many individuals are anti-tobacco while others are for the use of tobacco for individuals that wish to use it. At this moment in time, tobacco is available for purchase of individuals that are aged eighteen years or older; however, some forms of media makes it appealing to teens younger than the age of 18.For this assignment, I was given two forms of Media one was a Newport Commercial, and the other was a commercial quit smoking commercial. The commercials had two different viewpoints, and perspectives on the use of tobacco.

1. The purpose of the study was to assess in detail, the long-term effects of nicotine exposure on the brain of young adolescents, during which it is not fully matured, therefore are more susceptible to the changes. Because of the neuroplasticity of the brain, exposure at a young age, may greatly impact the development/functions of the frontal cortical regions and lead to changes that persist into adulthood which is why this study is important thus the rationale behind this study was that if greater dependence of this drug is an issue in adulthood, then what kind of changes and declines are we seeing in the cognitive functioning of the brain, as the dependence grows. The hypothesis was in relation to the fact that if this study shows disturbances

What do the teens in America think about tobacco? Many teens consider smoking to be cool while others believe that it is not. In this case, I agree with those who say that the use of tobacco is a foolish thing. Smoking tobacco is not a good thing because tobacco can give the person serious health problems, many people are addicted to tobacco use, and tobacco can also cause personal problems.

Pierce, John. (2013). Influence of Tobacco Marketing and Exposure to Smokers on Adolescent Susceptibility to Smoking. Retrieved from:

Imagine your life being slowly sucked away because of a cigarette that costed you money. This is the real truth of what a cigarette does to your life and more than enough reasons on why minors shouldn’t smoke. It has been studied that before smoking, minors would do exceptional on their tests that they took at school, but after they started their test scores started to lessen by about 0.08 percent each day from one cigarette. A numerous number teen smokers say that smoking for their age is alright, as they obtain a “high” from it and they have a good time. Even though smoking for minors seems well enough, it isn’t since it affects the genes in their brains negatively, the U.S. has even seen the threat of it and banned

Research has been done to understand why E-Cigarette uses are increasingly popular among adolescents and if the prevalence of point-of-sale among E-cigarettes increases this behavior and the one discussed in this paper is ‘Does exposure to cigarette brands increase the likelihood of adolescent e-cigarette use’? This study was done by Best .C, et al. 2016.

Inhale, exhale. is all people see, but the feeling leaves you a satisfaction that is unrivaled. the air is exhaled softly tenitively in anticipation for what is to come. then the intake of breath, clouded by the smoke filling your mouth, your lungs, your life. once it fills up every crevice of your being, you hold the feeling in never wanting it to excape you until you no longer can, begrudgingly it is released. leaving you relaxed and conflicted at the same time. it never started out like this, this seemingly innocent item was once just a means of fitting in. Now it is comsuming your life quite literally. this is where many young adults find them selves in the US, teen related tobacco use is a peer pressure turned addiction which places then in an inescable pit of furthered tobacco use, something you do not consider at a young age.

Attitudes and behaviors of American youth and parents about the advertise ads that targeted the youth of American. Many advertisements idealize alcohol and cigarette smoking, which can encouragement children at a young age to believe that these substances enhance acceptance or appeal. In our assignments reading (The Media: Do We Control it, or Does It Control Us?) In the article said “some would argue that even adults cannot resist the onslaught of the media, but what about children?” “Children learn about the world, in part, by imitating what they see. Also “parents influence their children by offering themselves as behavioral models.” But children today witness what they normally wouldn’t see in real life –on television, in periodicals,

Several themes have emerged through the analysis of the individual interviews. Adolescent tobacco use is greatly influenced by one’s social circle. Although, parental tobacco use may contribute somewhat to tobacco use in their children, peer pressure seems to take precedence in determining tobacco use in adolescents. Moreover, the ease in accessing cigarettes, when compared to drugs like marijuana or cocaine, seems to also influence tobacco use. Similarly, the interviewees reported that they ended up smoking tobacco more often because getting their hands on a pack of cigarettes was much easier than getting access to any other drugs. Furthermore, a lack in self-esteem, or a perceived lack in control over certain aspects of their life, such as,

The authors point out how anti-smoking advertisements do not send a clear message to the students to understand how smoking can impact their health. It seems that the advertisements trick people by sending the wrong message, such as demonstrating that smoking is not as bad as it seems that the more the students see those advertisements, the more propense for the students to smoke. The source is relevant to my hypothesis because it demonstrates that teenagers are unaware of the health consequences that they can get. The author’s goal is for teenagers to understand anti-smoking messages are not explicit and are not demonstrating a clear understanding of the risks that smoking cause. The authors conclude that new advertisements need to be more carefully evaluated for teenagers to recognize that their intentions reflect undesirable outcome in the antismoking advertainments for teenagers to understand smoking and the inevitable result that can be provoked due to smoking.

To make matters worse, the tobacco companies are making millions from teen smokers. Tobacco companies use advertising to manipulate both teens and adults. They present images that are hard to shake, even when you know the truth. Have you ever seen a cigarette ad where people are wrinkled, middle-aged or coughing and in the hospital dying of lung cancer? Of course not! In most ads, smokers are shown the way that teens would like to be: attractive and hip, sophisticated and elegant, or rebellious.

Our results have shown that about a third of intermediate and secondary school adolescents in Madinah, Saudi Arabia smoked. Although the proportion that smoked was higher among male and secondary school students, it remained also alarmingly high among female and intermediateschool students. Further analyses showed that in both secondary and intermediate schools, male smoking outweighed female smoking. A similarly high prevalence of adolescent smoking was also reported in previous Saudi studies [8-10]. The reported overall prevalence rates of adolescents smoking in those studies ranged from 29% to 37%; compared to 33.02% in this study. Smoking prevalence with same patternsof sex and level of education in adolescents was observed in a school based study conducted in Riyadh [9].