Teens And Smoking Cigarette

Teens will be aware of cigarette smoking when very young, and more than one quarter had at least a few puffs of cigarettes of 10 years. The setting for smoking regularly occurs primarily in adolescence, and about 5% in 11 years, the number increased significantly from 16 to over 25% are regular smokers. Although teens used for girls is significantly higher in smokers, has in the past decade a growing trend, smoking among girls, with children seen at the game. Indications Equality Now, in most countries, there is approximate equality, and there are only girls, children can before.

Many factors influence teens start cigarette smoking, but one of the most important is the example of their parents. Smoking teens whose parents are more likely to get into the habit. About 25% of the 10 to 12 years old said of the smokers, they smoked their first cigarette with his parents and because cigarettes and their parents. Example of the influence of peers is also essential. Most of the friends of the young smokers “smoke and smoking in adolescence often take place with other young people.

Although the level of tobacco use among teens is alarming, it has a certain decline in recent years, parallel trends in the elderly. Together with this reduction did not accompany changes in attitudes about smoking. Between 1975 and 1980 to draw the percentage of students in the U.S. smoking as a risk of “large” increase of 51% to 64% into consideration, and studies show in the 1980s, that decline over 70% “,” smoking twenty cigarettes or more per day and more than 40% believe that smoking be prohibited in certain public places.

It is also clear that the effects of the addictive nature of cigarettes has not been fully realized because less than 1% of adolescent smokers say that they “definitely will” say smoking in five years and only 13% that they are probably ” “Smoking in five years. The sad truth is that the vast majority is still smoking five years later and many years later.

I am pleased to say that after heavy smokers for most of my husband and I quit smoking two to 12 years ago!