Tobbacco

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Tobacco in Youths
The tobacco is made ​​from the dried leaves of the plant of the same name, contains several substances, highlighting the nicotine that is responsible for creating addiction. It is a stimulant drug addiction and generates an increase of heart rate and blood pressure. The tobacco is addictive and smokers have to smoke a given number of cigarettes each day to meet the dependence.If they cannot they addict will receive the withdrawal. Cigarette smoking among adolescents is increasing and there is not a gender gap.

Young people start smoking by imitation and feel older. Nobody likes their first cigarette, but it is a sign of maturity false overcome initial dizziness and continue smoking. Cigarette smoking in young produces nicotine addiction and various health problems,including: lung disease, heart and arteries, tooth decay and bad breath, wrinkles, fractures, more likely to use other drugs and impotence. “If current tobacco use patterns persist, an estimated 6.4 million current child smokers will eventually die prematurely from a smoking-related disease. Every day, almost 3,900 children under 18 years of age try their first cigarette, and more than 950 ofthem will become new, regular daily smokers.” (American Lung Association)

We have to know and understand why the adolescent start smoking is necessary to intervene and design policies and campaigns tailored to the target population of the same. Create a research where tobacco experimentation is analyzed, the first experiences the teen has his first cigarette, first impressions and what surroundsthese practices gilts “Alcohol and tobacco have proven harmful, addictive, and difficult to regulate. Alcohol is the third leading cause of death in the United States—each year over 100,000 Americans die of alcohol-related causes.” (Justice).
We started from the idea of ​​smoking as a social act, therefore, is done with other people, social networks possessing the teenager. The tobacco flowingthrough networks and word by word this distributes information informally and in relation to the same motivations. “An emerging practice of using brain imaging through functional magnetic resonance imaging or positron emission tomography scanning to understand people’s responses to external stimuli such as advertising messages has begun to attract the attention of advertisers and marketers,bioethicists, and consumer advocates. This practice, sometimes called neural marketing, draws from the latest developments in cognitive neuroscience and the growing availability of neural imaging facilities. Neural marketing claims that a person’s response to favorite commercial brands or images and responses to stimuli such as advertising messages can be mapped through brain imaging.” (SERVICES, p. 35)There are Institutions seeking to prevent consumption through campaigns and other interventions and by laws and regulations that restrict or prohibit the purchase or consumption of tobacco. “The National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health has published monographs pertinent to the topic of tobacco use among youth. In 2001, NCI published Monograph 14, Changing AdolescentSmoking Prevalence, which reviewed data on smoking among youth in the 1990s, highlighted important statewide intervention programs, presented data on the influence of marketing by the tobacco industry and the pricing of cigarettes, and examined differences in smoking by racial/ethnic subgroup (NCI 2001).” (General, 2012, p. 5)

The family loses its centrality and friends enter to the picture ofnew activities such as: to party at bars or nightclubs light, take the first experiences of feeling types and sex, making bottle, smoking.
But the big influence the family has on the perception and attitude of adolescent versus tobacco it is very essential. “Any parent or teacher will tell you that children are like sponges: they soak up the actions and attitudes of the people around them. What...
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