Teens And Smoking Cigarette

More than 3,000 teens are regular smokers every day in the United States – More than one million new smokers a year. Here are some facts for teenage smoking “are of concern:

• 86% of teen smokers who bought their own cigarettes preferred Marlboro, Camel or Newport cigarettes – brands most heavily advertised.
• Approximately 57% of students in grades 9 to 12, tend to smoke, to have their cigarettes in a retail store, an ATM, or purchased from another person, the cigarettes, to buy for them.
• Among youths aged 10 to 18 to report back about three quarters of smokers of cigarettes per day and report daily users of smokeless tobacco, according to the consumption of tobacco, because it is very difficult for them to quit smoking.
• Among young smokers, is the transition from experimentation to dependence as often as now, among users of cocaine and heroin.
• Approximately 93% of smokers of cigarettes per day for adolescents and daily users of smokeless tobacco have been trying to stop reporting at least one symptom of nicotine withdrawal.
• Every year about 225 million packs of cigarettes sold illegally to minors under 18 years – and the number is increasing.
• More than 5 million people under 18 are living to die prematurely from smoking illnesses.
• The use of smokeless tobacco among young people is a constant problem. Data from school surveys show that about one fifth of male students in grades 9 uses up to 12 smokeless tobacco and snuff.
• Smoking is also with many other high-risk behavior is struggling to do (for example) having unprotected sex.
• Since smoking at an early age greatly increases the risk of lung cancer. The risk of a person, which in most cancers increases with the length of time to smoke a person smokes.
• Studies have shown that nicotine is addictive in the same way as heroin, cocaine and alcohol.
• Studies have shown that early signs of damage to blood vessels in these diseases in adolescents who smoke are to find.
• Prices have increased smoking among young people each year since 1992. In 1996 22.2% of high school graduates per day – against 17.2% smoked in 1992. Increased between 1991 and 1996, smoking decreased from 14.3% to 21.0% in grade eight students and 20.8% to 30.4% among students of the tenth.
• Consume an average of 28.3 million adolescents smoke cigarettes per day (516 million packages per year, growing) per year – and the number.
• Smoking adolescents suffer from shortness of breath, almost three times more than adolescents who do not smoke, and produce phlegm more than twice that smoking adolescents who do not.
• Teens who smoke are three times more likely than nonsmokers to use to use alcohol, eight times more likely to marijuana and 22 times more likely to cocaine consumption.

The result: Very few people begin smoking after the age of 18 or 20 Tobacco is highly addictive – as addictive as cocaine. The children are physically and psychologically dependent. You can quit, but it is extremely difficult. It is certainly easier to not start for the first time.