What Is Your Opinion On Teens And Smoking?
I’m writing a persuasive essay on how smoking should be banned because it is harming teenagers..
I need your suggestions on some reliable and credible websites that can give me information on this topic. These are some questions that i came up with.
How are teenagers aquiring cigarettes?
Why are teens smoking?
When do teens start smoking?
What are the effects of smoking on teenagers?
Where do smoking teenagers end up in life?
Does living around smokers affect their decision?
Thanks
February 14th, 2010 at 11:06 am
1. Take them from their parents or a family member, some parents give their children cigarettes, get them from an older friend, some look older so have no problem buying them
2. They think they look cool, because their friends do, peer pressure, to look older, to impress a guy/girl, to rebel
3. early teens around 13 where i live anyway.
4. stinking breath and clothes, yellow teeth and hands, early wrinkles, increasing their rate of cancer, heart attacks, strokes, black lungs, breathlessness, find it difficult to participate in sport because they can’t run around for too long
5. everyone is different so i can’t really say one way or the other. For some it leads to harder drugs and a dangerous lifestyle, others grow out of smoking and live a happy life, and others continue to smoke but still lead happy lives
6. No, because both my parents lived in homes with smoking parents but none of them smoke. If anything living with parents who smoke puts the kids off it.
February 14th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
You can’t ban smoking. The government takes £4 out of £5 that a pack of cigarettes cost. I doubt they will ban it.
I remember as a young child saying that i would never smoke and giving my dad a hard time for smoking and forcing him to give up. But things changed.
I am 16 and i first tried smoking when i was 13 and ended up smoking ten a day for about a year and then quit. I had an older friend who got them for me. Now at 16 i have left school and started college and unfortunately started smoking due to the fact that all my mates smoke and its very tempting and hard to say no. I smoke 20 a day. I smoke because it feels good and helps me relax. In scotland the age is 18 to buy cigarettes but the shop near the college sells me. My dad started smoking at 15 and went to university and studied medicine. He is now a dr. If your parents are smokers you are more likely to be a smoker. The effects of smoking are obvious.
February 14th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
Smoking is already banned to teenagers.
How are teenagers aquiring cigarettes?
adults buy them they use fake id
Why are teens smoking?
peer pressure bordom rebelion seems normal
When do teens start smoking?
between 12-15
What are the effects of smoking on teenagers?
same as the effects on everyone else lung damage addiction media
Where do smoking teenagers end up in life?
same place as everybody else usually
Does living around smokers affect their decision?
affect yes it would make it easy to paint parents as hipocrites but it doesn’t decide the desion
February 14th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
How are teenagers aquiring cigarettes?
Get people to buy them for you, or buy them at school.
Why are teens smoking?
Peer pressure, stress relief, etc.
When do teens start smoking?
Around 14 or 15 I think.
What are the effects of smoking on teenagers?
Smell, no money, punishments off parents.
Where do smoking teenagers end up in life?
Same place as non-smokers?
Does living around smokers affect their decision?
No, I have friends who have parents who are heavy smokers and don’t smoke, but then I have friends who have non-smokers and who are regular smokers.
February 14th, 2010 at 8:29 pm
way i see it, its there lungs, and a big turn off,
and its them thats burning there money
in ireland smokes are like 7 / 8 EURO!! WHICH IS RIDICULOUS!!
its mad .. 3 years ago or something it was like 2 / 3 euro..
how kids get them in dublin, ask people to get them smokes (cuz one way or another they will get them)
or have faKE I’DS,
they smoke cuz the look ”kewl” half of the time i wouldnt mind THEY DONT EVEN NO HOW TO HOLD A SMOKE !!
n smoking teenages end up, well probably healther than pple who dont smoke ha ha : )
it is true, i dnt smoke n id die sooner than they wud!! n my ma / da gave up smoking cuz my brother had asma, even when they did smoke n sit beside me, id call them smelly fcuks n sit away from them, i cant stand the smell……..but there off smokes now like 9 years now! n im delighted : )
February 14th, 2010 at 9:16 pm
well i dont know if i will be much of help but i will tell u from m point of view being a teen and a smoker.
1. get a friend to buy them or go uo to some1 and just ask for one.
2. lose weight, thinking they are kool etc
3. i started around 13 and so did my friends
4. well i got bad skin for a while and i cant run for ****.
5.i can see myself as a normal person i guess
6. yes and no i started to get back at my rents where as my friends started because they wanted to be able to have something common with there parents so after dinner they would all go outside and have a smoke 2gether. it was basically like bonding time for them.
hope i helped
February 14th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
1. They can get them a number of ways–steal their parent’s, steal them from a store, buy them from a store (if they don’t ID), or have someone buy them for them.
2. Peer pressure, and some think it’s cool or is an escape.
3. At any time–one of my friend’s dads started at 9 and he died last year of lung cancer at 43. My grandfather started at 13.
4. Horrible health issues, social issues (either acceptance because they smoke or rejection because they smell horrible, etc).
5. It depends on the kid.
6. Yes. Generally those whose parents smoke are more likely to smoke.
February 15th, 2010 at 4:10 am
im 17, i dont think its cool, i think their gonna end up on some commercial talkin about how bad they been tryna quit OR gettin their legs cut off because they stopped gettin blood
February 15th, 2010 at 9:49 am
I think any teen that smokes
should get their butt beat
February 15th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
getting cigarettes is not hard..ask ur mate(older or simply older LOOKING)…even a person on a street…simple..
teens start smoking bcoz they wanna feel grown up…then they start liking the taste..then sometimes turns into something THEY have to do..a habit…they get used to stress=a smoke
happy days=smoke
bored=smoke
and they just wanna hold it and show of..sometimes(usually at the beginning)
teens are adults have the same problem with smoking,stink,health issues etc…but the only thing that changes is their growing,smoke makes u stop growing ..so thats the difference between smoking in adults and teens…..
mainly smoking teens smoke for fun,excitement,popularity(im 14 by the way.)….
just bcoz u smoke that does not mean u end up badly in life..as long as u know the boundaries…soaking cigarettes is one thing..then going to weed is another….
so just know when to say ”no thanks”…
living around smokers usually does effect the fact or genes etc blah blah blah…thats what we hear,,
to be honest..i think its just choice…u DONT have too..its a choice everyone can make themselves…yes its tempting for a teen to take the ciggs from their parents if they are just lying around….
but some say no..
honestly? i did not keep my hands away..i’ve been there,done that,and over it now..
no,it did not finish on cigarettes, i did also drink (the usual to be honest)….just for th hell of it …really..
and now..i’m over it…