Tobacco Use In Adolescents

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

Tobacco use by teens has been a problem in America for over 50 years, yet there are teens smoking today. At least 30 percent of adolescents use some form of tobacco. In fact, statistics reveal that the average age for first using tobacco is 13. Despite the incessant advertising and education on the dangers of tobacco use, teens still continue to smoke. So why to teens continue to smoke? Mainly because most of them do not know what long-term health issues it can cause.

The use of tobacco and the consumption of alcohol is considerably huge around the United States of America. A sad reality is it’s not just adults that are smoking tobacco or drinking alcohol. Children who are in grade school are being exposed to this lifestyle and many begin to experiment. It can easily become an addiction, and for some, it does. There may be personal reasons to why individuals begin to use, and some of those reasons may be due to peer pressure, stress relief, and availability.

According to the Social Ecological Model, the mass media is one factor influencing drug abuse among adolescents. The American Academy of Pediatrics (2011) states that the tobacco industry in OC has focused on attracting teen to mid twenty adults through their tobacco advertising on television shows that adolescents watch. This is a huge factor that promotes drug abuse among adolescents by advertising tobacco products and lure them into using tobacco. Researchers from the Journal of the Medical Association (2012) found that about 70,000 adolescents who encountered smoking each year in Orange County was a result of tobacco industry advertisements, which increased adolescents’ susceptibility to drug abuse. Another way the mass media influences drug abuse is through the internet. Studies show that about 70% of adolescents in OC are exposed to drugs on the internet causing them to experiment with drugs because it is considered a “cool” thing to do (2010). Adolescents who come across any type of drugs are three times more likely to consume it (2010). The interpersonal level also has a huge impact on adolescents. Being exposed to family members and peers who smoke increases a teen’s susceptibility of engaging in the behavior. About one in every five Orange County households, adolescents’ parents smoke (2015). Among teens whose family and peers smoke or have drug addictions, about 88% of them

     During the 1040's and 50's smoking was popular and socially acceptable. Movie stars, sports heroes, and celebrities appeared in cigarette advertisements that promoted and heavily influenced teens. Influence also came from Television and other media sources. The desires to be accepted and to feel grown up are among the most common reasons to start smoking. Yet, even though teenagers sometimes smoke to gain independence, and to be part of the crowd parental influence plays the strongest role as to whether or their children will smoke, Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), 1991. Children are exposed to and influenced by the parents, siblings, and the media long before peer pressure will become a factor. Mothers should not smoke during pregnancy, nicotine, which crosses the placental barrier, may affect the female fetus during an important period of development so as to predispose the brain to the addictive influence of

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.

The evaluated sociodemographics were sex (male, female), race/ethnicity (non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic dark, Hispanic, and other), and age (9-14, 15-16, >/= 17y) (Persoskie, Donaldson, & King, 2016). The National Youth Tobacco Survey data was from the US middle and high school students who did pencil-and-paper, school-based, cross-sectional, and self-administered

2.) Historically The results showed that white students who had friends that smoked are most likely to also smoke compared to non-white students. In conclusion they focused on the relationship between the children and their parents. In indivualistic cultures teens will rebel against there parents which often showed children smoking and in some collectivist culture children will not rebel

Health Issue: Adolescent Tobacco Cessation Consider how you would evaluate your program relative to each of the components. 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;

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

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

This particular article highlights the impact between childhood sexual abuse and alcohol, cannabis and cigarette use in minor girls. The usage of substances by minor girls increases when there is a direct link to childhood sexual abuse in their past. Having early substance usage affects the brain negatively during a vital period of brain development, which, can result in negative consequences and further delinquency. Cigarette use and cannabis use in this study, had proved to be an actual distinct factor in linkage with childhood sexual abuse. Additionally, there is substantial likelihood of early alcohol use if a history of sexual abuse is in existence.

Results: Conclusion: Keywords: Adolescents, tobacco use, cigarettes, smoking, peer influence, modeling, imitation, social cognitive theory How Peers Influence Tobacco Use For It seems the majority of eighth graders in this study have not tried cigarettes and the majority of them believe their friends would strongly disapprove of them smoking cigarettes occasionally. According to the research, adolescents who come from lower socio economic households have more of a risk when it comes to tobacco use. Since the socio economic status of the respondents is not known, this causes an implication to the researcher. Because of this, additional research needs to be conducted to determine the socioeconomic status of the respondents and doing a cross analysis on tobacco use within 8th

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; 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.