Teenage Smoking

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses the increase in teenage smoking. The paper describes teenage use of tobacco in the United States as a significant problem, with at least one quarter of all teenagers smoking. The paper suggests ways that physicians and the rest of the community should become involved in attempting to prevent teenagers from beginning to smoke.

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Hypothesis
Literature Review
Methodology
Results
Discussion
Chi Square

From the Paper:

"The American Cancer Society suggests that parents have the ability to influence youth not to start smoking. Teens who thought their parents would disapprove of them smoking were found to be less than half as likely to smoke as those teenagers that thought their parents didn't care, whether or not the parents themselves were smokers. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cites parents as the greatest influence in children's lives, and encourages parents to actively tell their children about family deaths related to smoking, explain the health consequences from tobacco use, and warn them about the negative effects smoking has on physical appearance. Additionally, parents that smoke can avoid using tobacco in front of their children, not offer tobacco to their children, keep tobacco products out of easy reach, and most importantly try to quit."

Sample of Sources Used:

• ACS. (2001, June 8) Peer influence on teen smoking rooted in cultural background. American Cancer Society News Center. Retrieved April 2006, from http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/update/NWS_1_1xU_Peer_Influence_on_Teen_Smoking_Rooted_in_Cultural_Background.asp?sitearea=NWS&viewmode=print&
• ACS. (2005, October 25) Child and teen tobacco use. American Cancer Society. Retrieved April 2006, from http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_2X_Child_and_Teen_Tobacco_Use.asp?sitearea=PED&viewmode=print&
• Andrews, J.A. (2004, June) Perceptions of what other thinks and smoking. Pediatrics for Parents. Retrieved April 2006, from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0816/is_6_21/ai_n9772301/print.
• Angus Reid Group. (1997, September 29) Smoke Signals: Teen Smoking in BC 1997. Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada. Retrieved April 2006 from http://www.healthservices.gov.bc.ca/tobacrs/teen/index.html
• Batchelor, S. (2004, February 6) Movie smoking hooks teens, experts say. National Catholic Reporter. Retrieved April 2006 from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_14_40/ai_113338216/print

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