Teen Smoking

Teen Smoking


Due to peer pressure, propaganda and availability, teenage smoking has been on

the rise since 1986. Three thousand children start using tobacco each day

because of the negative influences aimed toward them. Our President and the

American Medical Association have taken action and have urged tobacco companies

to do the same against under age smoking. Despite all positive actions against

it, "pack-a-day" smoking has risen thirty-three Percent in the past ten years

among high school seniors.


Throughout life children and adults are being persuaded to do or try something

that goes against what they believe. Peer pressure is common place in grade

school, where children are constantly being exposed to smoking. Cigarettes are

being smoked everywhere authority is not, during school or any other place kids

congregate. Kids smoke because they want to feel like they 'fit in' and they

want to rebel at the same time. "U.S. News discussed the smoking issue with

twenty teenagers from suburban Baltimore. Half were boys, half  girls, and all

were between the ages of fifteen and seventeen. Over more than four hours of

conversation, it became clear that most teens smoked for two seemingly

contradictory reasons: They want to be part of a peer group, while rejecting

society and its norms. They want to reach out and rebel at the same

time."(Roberts 38) Tobacco companies spend four billion dollars each year in

advertising and promotional costs and claim there is no health risk. Six hundred

thousand people die every year from smoking related illness, and others quit.

Teenagers are not concerned about their hea
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