Grade I Received: 6A
Task: Write an article for the community health newsletter. Using relevant information from the text and graphs, discuss the factors that influence teenage smoking and the implications of those factors for reducing teenage smoking.
Session One: Part B Essay
Teenage smoking has been an issue of controversy for many years. While some people try to promote smoking, others try to reduce it. So then, what are these factors for reducing teenage smoking?
A passage by B. Feder mentioned that "Teenage smoking rates are still lower than in the 1970's, but they are rapidly increasing". In fact according to a survey conducted by the University of Michigan, 12th graders who smoke on a daily basis are up to 20% since 1991, 10th graders went up to 45% and 8th graders went up to 44% between the years of 1991 and 1996. The cause of this was due to the industries spending on domestic advertising and promotions such as on tv went up from $361 to $4.83 billion. These promotions caused people to buy more cigars. Also propaganda has been used to attract children such as the "ever-hip Joe Camel and Philip Morris' use of the rugged Marlboro man and the Marlboro Adventure Team". These type of factors influence a "cool" and "trendy" way to promote smoking.
The passage also informed how Reynolds and Philip Morris gave "T-shirts in return for coupons accumulated by buying their cigarettes". Thus more people would buy their cigarettes, another factor that would influence teenage smoking. According to the passage, some artist would sell their CDs at bargain prices only if they bought cigarettes. Hollywood would also be another factor because they made cigars a "symbol of success in the movies" which would promote the idea to teenagers that smoking would involve success, especially if artist smoked. Artist smoking made teenagers use them as role models to do as well like seen in the movies. All of these factors influenced smoking in teenagers.
One factor to reduce teenage smoking was the high inflation of taxes, according to the FDA as seen in the passage. The industries also used seen in the passages. The industries also used people "older than 25" to focus their messages on adults to stop teenage smoking. Industries have also perceived how students don't see smoking as a cool but a normal activity. One person said in the passage by B. Feder "If I buy anything but Camel, it feels like I wasted money because I collect Camel cash" he said, referring to the coupons that can be redeemed for Camel merchandise.
Graph 1 shows the percentage in each grade who told surveyors that they smoked at least 1/2 a pack of cigarettes a day provided by th University of Michigan. It is evidently clear that it is increasingly rapidly over the years and thus can be caused because of the factors that influence smoking. These factors can be Hollywood, Artist, give-aways, etc. Graph 1 supports the factors that influence smoking in teenagers. However on the other hand, Graph 2 supports in part how smoking has declined over the past to decades but of those who smoke once in a while have increased their habits has rapidly increased over the recent years because smoking is promoted in teenagers.
Society points their finger at one another for the evidence that is seen in daily life. Teenagers were influenced to smoke because of factors by Hollywood, Stars, etc. But smoking in teenagers was also trying to be stopped through the FDA's higher taxes and propaganda using older people to promote smoking for older people only. At the end of the day it is the teenager who decides what he or she will do with the "factors that influence teenagers smoking and the implications of those factors for reducing teenage smoking".
A passage by B. Feder mentioned that "Teenage smoking rates are still lower than in the 1970's, but they are rapidly increasing". In fact according to a survey conducted by the University of Michigan, 12th graders who smoke on a daily basis are up to 20% since 1991, 10th graders went up to 45% and 8th graders went up to 44% between the years of 1991 and 1996. The cause of this was due to the industries spending on domestic advertising and promotions such as on tv went up from $361 to $4.83 billion. These promotions caused people to buy more cigars. Also propaganda has been used to attract children such as the "ever-hip Joe Camel and Philip Morris' use of the rugged Marlboro man and the Marlboro Adventure Team". These type of factors influence a "cool" and "trendy" way to promote smoking.
The passage also informed how Reynolds and Philip Morris gave "T-shirts in return for coupons accumulated by buying their cigarettes". Thus more people would buy their cigarettes, another factor that would influence teenage smoking. According to the passage, some artist would sell their CDs at bargain prices only if they bought cigarettes. Hollywood would also be another factor because they made cigars a "symbol of success in the movies" which would promote the idea to teenagers that smoking would involve success, especially if artist smoked. Artist smoking made teenagers use them as role models to do as well like seen in the movies. All of these factors influenced smoking in teenagers.
One factor to reduce teenage smoking was the high inflation of taxes, according to the FDA as seen in the passage. The industries also used seen in the passages. The industries also used people "older than 25" to focus their messages on adults to stop teenage smoking. Industries have also perceived how students don't see smoking as a cool but a normal activity. One person said in the passage by B. Feder "If I buy anything but Camel, it feels like I wasted money because I collect Camel cash" he said, referring to the coupons that can be redeemed for Camel merchandise.
Graph 1 shows the percentage in each grade who told surveyors that they smoked at least 1/2 a pack of cigarettes a day provided by th University of Michigan. It is evidently clear that it is increasingly rapidly over the years and thus can be caused because of the factors that influence smoking. These factors can be Hollywood, Artist, give-aways, etc. Graph 1 supports the factors that influence smoking in teenagers. However on the other hand, Graph 2 supports in part how smoking has declined over the past to decades but of those who smoke once in a while have increased their habits has rapidly increased over the recent years because smoking is promoted in teenagers.
Society points their finger at one another for the evidence that is seen in daily life. Teenagers were influenced to smoke because of factors by Hollywood, Stars, etc. But smoking in teenagers was also trying to be stopped through the FDA's higher taxes and propaganda using older people to promote smoking for older people only. At the end of the day it is the teenager who decides what he or she will do with the "factors that influence teenagers smoking and the implications of those factors for reducing teenage smoking".
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