[Health care]
Introduction
Though smoking has only negative effects, especially when it can cause different cancers in the body, nevertheless, the mass media try to make smoking look acceptable and cool, which helps tobacco firms enlarge their revenues (Services, Health and First).
In recent years, separated from traditional cigarette smoking, which comparatively went down, we can observe a significant increase in using electronic cigarettes. The amount of students who are studying in high school or even middle school, continue smoking e-cigarettes and what is terrible to state that the number of such occasions doubled from 2012 and kept increasing (Gonchar).
Teenagers think that it is cool to smoke e-cigarette, however, they do not care about health problems that may occur in the elderly. Entirely in 2012 year, up to 1.8 million both high and middle school students in total told that they had already tried e-cigarettes, which anyway cannot be good, according to the national survey, carried out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ("Notes From The Field: Electronic Cigarette Use Among Middle And High School Students — United States"). Moreover, respondents said that they had tried single cigarettes before.
Despite the fact that traditional cigarette smoking in high and middle schools has declined to record lows, the use of e-cigarettes tripled from 2013 to 2014 (Steinmetz).
Some facts about smoking
Here is some valid data about smoking: 90% of all smokers began this activity before 19 years old; approximately 30% of all teenagers will keep on smoking and die early because of a smoking-related illness; youngsters smokers are more inclined to get panic attacks, have mental health problems, nervous disorders or suffer from depression; researchers found that very first cigarette to be smoked by a teenager usually occurs before the graduation from the high school; commonly smokers live 13-14 years less than non-smokers; annually up to 1.5 million packs are bought by minors; some investigations proved that hookah smoke has a higher level of a combination of tar, nicotine or heavy metals, rather than smoke of typical cigarettes ("11 Facts About Teen Smoking”).
Health risks
Smoking tobacco is very harmful to your health in the short and long haul. In a short period of time, it can cause serious difficulties to your breath and can result in diminished lung function. Moreover, it can lead to respiratory diseases and coughing. In addition, smoking can decrease physical activity of a teenager engaged in some sports or gym. Long haul smoking can be very fatal to your health: it may cause serious health issues, constant lung troubles, heart attacks or even problems with vision (Boehlke).
Addiction to tobacco use
People became addicted to smoking because of nicotine concentration in tobacco. Here are several symptoms of addiction: you feel anxious without a cigarette; you want to smoke and cannot even wait a minute without a puff; one day you decided to abandon smoking but later continue doing that, etc. What should be added here, that other forms of tobacco, such as e-cigarettes, chewing tobacco, menthol cigarettes or cigars are threatening to your health as well, because they accommodate deadly chemicals/ingredients that can damage your feeling ("For Teens: Straight Talk About Smoking").
Conclusion
On the whole, smoking is not only a problem for teenagers, but also a threat to their health. Parents should control their kids, explain how serious this issue is, and tell them that the longer children wait to stop smoking the harder it will be for them to quit. Is quitting possible? Yes, certainly, there is always a way out! However, not for everybody it is that easy to stop smoking. Just give it a try and that is all! Even you fail to quit smoking, do your best to make the second attempt. Practice make excellent!
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