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:
- Students who smoke during middle school years give rise to frequent absences, poor grades, academic difficulties, delinquency, and impaired relationships .They are more likely to engage in marijuana use or drinking on a weekly basis or using hard drugs.
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The chances of involving in stealing rise among children who smoke before 10 years.
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People who smoke before the age of 15 are more likely to get bladder cancer and lung cancer in later age. The disease is the fourth most common cancer among men and kills millions each year.
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In many cases early age smoking gives rise to Permanent Genetic Damage in later life.
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Brain haemorrhage (sub-arachnoid haemorrhage) is six times higher in young smokers than young non-smokers.
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Women who smoke at an early age are at risk for heart diseases and lung cancer. They’re also at risk for reduced fertility and premature menopause.
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Women who take up smoking within five years of menstruation or those before pregnancy are more likely to develop breast cancer before they reach menopause.
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A study finds that teenagers who smoke, or exposed to second-hand smoke, face a much higher risk of developing metabolic syndrome, disorders associated with obesity that increases the chances of heart attack, strokes and diabetes.
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Studies show that men who start smoking when at 16 or before are at double the risk of developing symptomatic peripheral arterial occlusive disease.
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January 8th, 2008 at 8:55 am
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April 4th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
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.
February 17th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
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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