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Young Smokers

There is known evidence that smoking whenin fact influence whether or not children
young, whether directly or passively, has astart smoking.Smoking has definite
much more significant impact on future healthdetrimental health effects on children and
than starting when a young adult. However,known smokers have double to six fold
there is a major health risk associated withincreased likelihood of respiratory illnesses
smoking irrespective of when smokers' startincluding coughs, phlegm, wheeziness and
and half of all smokers will die prematurelyshortness of breathe. This results in
due to smoking.In the UK, about 1 in 4 girlssignificantly poorer attendance records for
and 1 in 6 boys at the age of 15 smoke. Thethese children at school. It is also known
higher proportion of girls smoking is thoughtthat in non-smoking children exposed to
to be due to the (false) assumption thesecondary smoke i.e. passive smokers, there
smoking acts as an appetite suppressant andis an increased risk of bronchitis,
aids dieting. The current likelihood of boyspneumonia, asthma and other chronic
and girls smoking has reversed from therespiratory illnesses.Infants also suffer
statistics in the 1970s and 1980s when moreconsiderably from secondary smoke. This is
secondary school boys smoked.Whilst thecompounded by the size of the children being
likelihood of smoking in girls is biased as asmaller, the concentration of the toxins and
result of their misconceptions of appetitecarcinogens in cigarette smoke are
suppression, boys or girls are three timesextenuated. Babies, infants and children all
more likely to smoke if their parents smoke.have significantly increased likelihood of
It is accepted that parental approval orcontracting cancer dependent upon the amount
disapproval does have an impact on theof time they have been exposed to secondary
likelihood of children to take up smoking.smoke. There is a directly proportional
However, it is the child's peer group andcorrelation between exposure and risk and as
elder siblings that are the most influentialsuch babies risks are greatest, followed by
on their take up of the habit.Tobaccoinfants then children.The socio-economic
advertising, whilst not widely regarded asbackground of children is a major determinant
encouraging smoking within the tobaccofactor in whether or not children smoke
industry itself has a significant impact onthemselves or are exposed to secondary smoke.
children smokers. Children are more likely toChildren from poorer backgrounds are not only
select a brand that is heavily advertisedmore likely to have smoking parents and hence
than one which is not. According to Charlton,become more likely to smoke themselves. They
White and Kelly in their paper "Boys' smokingalso suffer more from secondary smoke as a
and cigarette-brand sponsored motor racing",result of their parents increased likelihood
an interest in motor racing doubled theof smoking. It is in effect, a vicious
chance of the children fans becoming smokers!circle.
This strongly suggests that advertising will



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