In brief: “One needs to understand how smoking affects teenagers health now and in the future. Despite being aware of the health dangers of smoking cigarettes, about one third of the high school students smoke. This article reviews the danger of teenage smoking informing many fact and statistics.”
Why do people smoke at their early ages?
The biggest influences on children’s lives are their parents. It is very important to explain the teens the dangers of smoking as early as possible.
Nicotine has a profound effect on the brains of teenagers than on an adult. It is a fact that children who starts smoking before the age of 15 will continue to smoke all their adult life. This is why smoking is bad for teenagers. A cigarette contains more than 4000 chemical compounds among which 40 are carcinogens and unfortunately, it affects the health of a child in a very bad way.
Teenage Smoking facts and smoking statistics
Despite the fact that most teenagers feel they will not be smoking ten years down the line, the number of cigarettes they smoke grow as they grow older. The main key to not smoking is to avoid it in the first place. These are some of the teenager smoking facts and smoking statistics:
1. Cause of depression – Smoking is the main cause of depression, illegal drug use and alcohol abuse among teenagers as per the latest report.
2. % of teen smoking - There has been a decline in teen smoking since mid 1990’s but the adolescent smoking is on the rise in the latest report.
3. Female/Male – There is very high percentage of teenage smokers. It has been found out that 19% of teenage males are regular smokers while female in this category are 27%. In recent years, it is seen that females are becoming more enthusiastic smokers than males. Females are causing injury to their health as they continue to smoke at very high rate.
4. USA stats – There is rise in smoking among white and Hispanic teens while this rate has declined among Black teens.
5. Cigarettes advertisement - It is an important fact that cigarette advertisement increases the risk of teenage smoking as it misleads kids. Although cigarette advertisements are banned on television, teenage smoking is promoted through various television shows and magazines.
6. Addiction - Most teenagers who smoke are addicted to nicotine so even if they want to quit smoking, they cannot.
7. Other drugs - It has been researched that teenager who smoke are 13 times more likely to use any kind of illegal drug and nine times more likely to use alcohol as compared to teenagers who do not smoke.
8. Attacks - Smoking has also been linked to general anxiety and panic attacks among teenagers in a report.
9. Substance abuse - Smoking is clearly linked to substance abuse in teenagers as teenagers who smoke are 13 times likely to use marijuana drug.
10. Alcohol - According to latest report, teenagers who smoke are five to six times more likely to drink alcohol.
11. Abdominal obesity - In a study it has been found out that smoking during youth leads to abdominal obesity in adulthood among men and women.
There is vast information regarding the reasons why teenagers opt for smoking which is available over the internet. This is useful information for million of teenagers to learn about the dangers of smoking cigarettes.
