One of the leading issues today is juvenile smoking.   According to a heath based website, nearly 90% of adult smokers start while they are still teens. They may start with a cigarette or two from a acquaintance at a social gathering, and then go on to buying an irregular pack. After some days they realize that they can't go without that pack. They want to use a cigarette in the morning, after meals, or during any stressful time. And finally they become addicted, both physically and sensitively. According to the American Lung Association, each day 6,000 children under the age of 18 smoke their first cigarette.  Almost 2,000 of them will become regular smokers – that's 757, 000 new smokers annually!

Many teens start smoking because they have friends or older siblings who smoke. Some teens look at smoking as a way to get through difficult social situations. Smoking gives them something to do with their hands and makes them feel older or more sophisticated. Some teens smoke because they feel they look too young and that smoking may make them appear more like an adult.   Some teens - especially young women - think smoking is a way to keep their weight under control. She might think that if she has a cigarette in her hand, she's a lot less likely to eat. Others believe that a cigarette helps them relax when they're stressed out because of schoolwork, dating problems, or family pressures. Teens often start smoking because one or both parents smoke; they get the message that smoking is an acceptable habit. Others smoke because it isn't acceptable in their families. These teens may think that smoking shows that they are old enough to make their own decisions. The tobacco companies are making millions from teen smokers. They normally displays NOT FOR MINORS. But is that the real solution to make the teens free from smoking?

Teens are also being targeted by advertising that makes smoking look cool and hip, even though there’s libraries filled with studies that clearly show that tobacco use damages lungs, the heart and even the hearing mechanism that we all take for granted each day. This stuff is poison and that’s not speculation. It’s scientific fact so stop fooling yourself.

More and more kids are starting to smoke at earlier ages, this despite an on-going anti-tobacco campaign taught in schools beginning in the primary grades. Schools are giving kids the information. Unfortunately, not all of those kids are listening. Now check this out:

* 7% of teen-aged girls smoke tobacco – a number that’s way too high
* 12% of teen boys smoke, again a number that’s too high, yet still increasing each year.
* In some countries in which smoking cigarettes is still considered acceptable, teen girls smoke almost as frequently as teen boys.
* Tobacco sellers are targeting these susceptible targets knowing that once you have a nicotine addiction you have a lifetime consumer – even if that lifetime is shortened by the product you sell.
* The U.S. Surgeon General has mandated that health warnings be placed on cigarette packs. And in many places, cigarettes aren’t even allowed. No smoking in bars or restaurants in New York. In fact, smokers are shunned in the U.S., forced to stand out in the blizzard to get their nicotine fix.

The WHO has designated May 31, 2010 as NO TOBACCO DAY – a day when even the heaviest smoker can try life without nicotine and the health risks associated with smoking.

WHO suggests that tobacco could kill up to 1 billion (with a b) people in this century. The best defense is good education and constantly pounding home the message that tobacco is poison. It’ll lower life’s quality. It may shorten life significantly and yes, it’s hard to quit but people just like you do it every day.

And it puts persons at risk for developing hearing loss.

So why will we put our life in risk? Why will we end our life in our hand? This is the time to think mindfully about the serious fact. So come on guys lets live our life in a better way by leaving the nicotine packed, cylindrical shaped thing.

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written by Administrator, June 08, 2010

Teens don't have any compulsion to smoke. It's just curiosity and to look Cool they get into this habit.

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