Risks Involved with Early Age Smoking

Early age or Teenage smoking is nothing new today; rather it is spreading like a canker even in children below and around 10 years.

Public policies and programs have had limited success in lowering the rates of teen smoking. Research shows that adolescents who develop smoking at an early age tend to suffer dangerous risks and health hazards.

Following are some dangerous risks involved with early age smoking:

5 Responses to “Risks Involved with Early Age Smoking”

  1. Arundhati Bhattacharjee Says:

    i am a junior state consultant of national tobacco control program, under BGI-WHO and Govt.of India. Its a nice website in general also, many people who are working to give tough battle to tobacco industries will be benefited. I have got many informations from your websites online articles.

  2. Rissa Says:

    Well, I started smoking at an early age, and still do smoke (am 14 now), and already I am getting a big nasty cough, my lungs hurt, and I can’t concentrate on anything. I hope I can quit soon.

    Thanks a lot for your infromation on this website. It helps me think more about what I’m doing.

  3. andrej Says:

    I suggest that this is a very bad way to tell people that smoking harms.

    The messages above suggest that it is not necessary to stop smoking as a teenager because the damage is done..

    For example the message ” In many cases early age smoking gives rise to Permanent Genetic Damage in later life”

    is completely useless because genetic damages arise in all smokers independent of age and furthermore there is only one study which demonstrated such an association although this was not confirmed in all studies.

    smoking is clearly deadly and harms..but the messages above suggest : If you smoke only for a short time as a teenager you will die later on because of this”

    This is completely not true as the risk for lung cancer depend on the duration and intensity of smoking.. so short smoking will not increase the risk for lung cancer as much as 10 years of smoking..

    the messages above discourage from smoking cessation!!!!!

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  5. sandrar Says:

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