How does onscren smoking effect teens?
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I believe that most people, anywhere in the world (almost),\nyoung and old alike, have been inudated with the trials and tribulations of smoking.  It's a shame that this product, which has been a major cause of lung cancer, hasn't been able to get the point across to "everyone", but it hasn't.\nI read that cigerette smoking is more addictive and harder to quit then heroin.  I smoked for 43 yrs. When I was told I had COPD I quit - cold turkey.  My lungs are the age of a 93 yr. olds. They won't get any worse, but they won't get any better. It's not easy to get the point across because there are so many people out there, like me, who really don't believe it will happen to them.  I believe this feeling is lots stronger when we are teenagers.
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well, it really sucks to go through this for you.\n\nRemember that your parents are human and that they love you.  The amount of stress they are going through is tremendous and it will take some time to adapt for them and you.  \n\nMy teenaged daughter has done very well with the whole thing, but we made sure she knows that we love her.  \n\nThe smoking thing is very tough, it's a habbit that your mom uses for stress relief, she probably didn't even know she did it till it was too late.  don't nag her about it cuz she don't need to be nagged, but just tell her that you don't want her to die from it and give her some time.\n\nkeep in mind that it all gets better with time!
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it can kill you is the obvious choice not to smoke..it stinks..rots your teeth and causes gum disease and the breath ewwwwww! It looks unattractive to see someone sucking on a cancer stick. You have to huddle together outside away from everyone while you're smoking cause it isn't allowed in any public place. It can kill your loved ones from second hand smoke. It costs a fortune, you would be better off spending all that money on your family or yourself.   It's very very addictive and sooooo very hard to kick.  You shorten your life. Your house stinks, your hair and clothes stink and the breath again ewwww.  You are limited to those who will date you, who wants to date a smoker, not many people anymore.  Hope this helps a bit.
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Teens probably spend a lot of money of drugs.  Teens often get caught up in illegal activities and then get so far into them they can't get out once their addicted.
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a direct link between smoking and breast cancer has not been found, some studies suggest it might increase breast cancer risk, particularly for women who start smoking as teens. Smoking affects your overall health and increases the risk for many other cancers, as well as heart disease. If you smoke, you should make every attempt to quit.
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well it has many effects, especially because they are your friends. Peer pressure has a lot to do with the teens and adults drinking right now, because they offer and the teen or adult don't say no because they "want to be cool like their friends." and then they get used to it and then they become alcohol addicts.
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Start coughing..not as soon as you see her pull one out of the pack...wait about 10 seconds or so after she lights up start off with one or 2 coughs and then as she continues to smoke the cigarette cough more and more and when she finishes the cigarette stop coughing and do this every time she smokes in front of you and do not give up..this will start to play on her conscious...even if she tries to smoke in her bedroom...if you smell it start coughing as you pass buy..and not a wimpy cough..make it a loud hooping cough and then start touching your throat as if it hurts..if after about a week of doing this she has not caught the hint then\nTalk to her in a respectful way..as if she is one of your friends from school and not sarcastic like many teenagers do which parents ignore and do not respect. Tell her that her smoking is really starting to bother you and would she please start smoking outside ans not while in the car with you or in the same room..once she starts to smoke outside then this will mean she will not smoke as often which means it may lead to her deciding to stop smoking all together.
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How Smoking Affects Your Body\nThere's hardly a part of the human body that's not affected by the chemicals in the cigarettes you smoke. Let's take a tour of your body to look at how smoking affects it.\n\nStarting at the Top\n\nAs a smoker, you're at risk for cancer of the mouth. Tobacco smoke can also cause gum disease, tooth decay and bad breath. The teeth become unsightly and yellow. Smokers may experience frequent headaches. And lack of oxygen and narrowed blood vessels to the brain can lead to strokes.\n\nLungs and Bronchi\n\nMoving down to your chest, smoke passes through the bronchi, or breathing tubes. Hydrogen cyanide and other chemicals in the smoke attack the lining of the bronchi, inflaming them and causing that chronic smoker's cough. Because the bronchi are weakened, you're more likely to get bronchial infections. Mucus secretion in your lungs is impaired, also leading to chronic coughing. Smokers are 10 times as likely to get lung cancer and emphysema as nonsmokers.\n\nSmoking and the Heart\n\nThe effects of smoking on your heart are devastating. Nicotine raises blood pressure and makes the blood clot more easily. Carbon monoxide robs the blood of oxygen and leads to the development of cholesterol deposits on the artery walls. All of these effects add up to an increased risk of heart attack. In addition, the poor circulation resulting from cholesterol deposits can cause strokes, loss of circulation in fingers and toes and impotence.\n\nSmoking and the Body's Organs\n\nThe digestive system is also affected. The tars in smoke can trigger cancer of the esophagus and throat. Smoking causes increased stomach acid secretion, leading to heartburn and ulcers. Smokers have higher rates of deadly pancreatic cancer. Many of the carcinogens from cigarettes are excreted in the urine where their presence can cause bladder cancer, which is often fatal. High blood pressure from smoking can damage the kidneys.\n\nThe Results\n\nThe health effects of smoking have results we can measure. Forty percent of men who are heavy smokers will die before they reach retirement age, as compared to only 18 percent of nonsmokers. Women who smoke face an increased risk of cervical cancer, and pregnant women who smoke take a chance with the health of their unborn babies.\n\nBut the good news is that when you quit smoking your body begins to repair itself. Ten years after you quit, your body has repaired most of the damage smoking caused. Those who wait until cancer or emphysema has set in aren't so lucky—these conditions are usually fatal. It's one more reason to take the big step and quit now.
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The main way it affects it is this.  Smoke particles block up the alvioli in the lungs and that is where the exchange of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood cells take place - the more are blocked, the less oxygen can get into the bloodstream and the less oxygen gets to the body's vital organs.  Cigarettes also contains tar which also blocks up the lungs and small traces of arsenic (a poison) which is stored by the body and builds up over a period of time.  As to diseases:\n\nAsthma, Emphysema, permanently stained teeth and fingers, Gingivitis, Gangrene, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), acute myeloid leukemia and cancers of the cervix, kidney, pancreas and stomach; abdominal aortic aneurysm, chronic bronchitis, cataracts, periodontitis and pneumonia, colorectal cancer, liver cancer, prostate cancer or erectile disfunction, increased chances of getting breast cancer, cancer of the bladder, eosophagus, larynx, lung, mouth, throat, linked to chronic lung disease, chronic heart and cardiovascular disease as well as reproductive problems. Expect to die 10 to 15 years earlier than non-smokers. \n\nHope that helps.
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cant help on the effects part..but here is a link about marijuana and cancer (may pad your report a lil ;-)\n\nhttp://www.sierratimes.com/03/11/07/article_kubby.htm
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Nonsmoker: I'm under 18 and already I know that smoking is REALLY BAD!!! I hate it. I know a lot of things by joining after school groups and they teach about in school sometimes. I would never really want to be around someone who smokes, unless they are family or really close friends.
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As a former long term user (10+ years) I haven't really noticed a whole lot of long term side affects.  All of the side affects that I noticed stopped after about 2 months of being clean.  Some of those were short term memory loss, lack of motivation to the point of procrastination, laziness/tiredness, and social anxiety problems.  It is also thought that a person who uses does not mature mentally or emotionally past the point they were at when they started using until after they stop using.  Never noticed any kind of paranoid/schizophrenic type of stuff.  Also smoking seeds is supposed to cause sterility.  There is the possibility that it causes cancer or other respiratory diseases although as far as I know it has not been proven.  Also, I can state that I have not had any lasting affects to my memory or attention.  I am currently enrolled in college and am maintaining a 3.76 GPA with a lot less studying than a lot of people.  In addition I smoked before taking my ACT (was high when took) and scored a 27 composite score.
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BIG HEALTH THREAT. smoking catnip WILL colapse your lungs not could will happend to a kid i went to high school with
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Smoking can cause lung cancer, but few people realize it is also a risk factor for many other kinds of cancer as well, including cancer of the mouth, voice box (larynx), throat (pharynx), esophagus, bladder, kidney, pancreas, liver, cervix, stomach, colon and rectum, and some leukemias.\n\nSmoking increases the risk of lung diseases such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis. These progressive lung diseases - grouped under the term COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) - are usually diagnosed in current or former smokers in their 60s and 70s. COPD causes chronic illness and disability and is eventually fatal.\n\nSmokers are twice as likely to die from heart attacks as are nonsmokers. And smoking is a major risk factor for peripheral vascular disease, a narrowing of the blood vessels that carry blood to the leg and arm muscles.\n\nSmoking also causes premature wrinkling of the skin, bad breath, bad smelling clothes and hair, and yellow fingernails.\n\nFor women, there are unique risks. Women over 35 who smoke and use "the pill" (oral contraceptives) are in a high-risk group for heart attack, stroke, and blood clots of the legs. Women who smoke are more likely to have a miscarriage or a lower birth-weight baby.\n\nBased on data collected from 1995 to 1999, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently estimated that adult male smokers lost an average of 13.2 years of life and female smokers lost 14.5 years of life because of smoking.\n\nNo matter what your age or how long you've smoked, quitting will help you live longer. People who stop smoking before age 35 avoid 90% of the health risks attributable to tobacco. Even those who quit later in life can significantly reduce their risk of dying at a younger age.\n\n\nAdditional diseases caused by smoking are gingivitis, gangrene, and emphysema
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CIGARETTES-\n\nIt does not have any plus point, all are only minus point only. It does not relive any stress. It is only a MAYA (Illusion) and makes people addicted to that without any intoxication even. Only regular smokers feel stressed with out smoking. They also feel depressed when they try to stop smoking. \n\nTobacco smoke contains nicotine, an addictive stimulant which temporarily improves alertness and memory, but also forms a strong physical and psychological chemical dependence (addiction). Medical research has determined that smoking is a major contributing factor towards many health problems, particularly lung cancer (which has a survival percentage of 16.4%), emphysema, and cardiovascular disease.  Many countries regulate or restrict tobacco sales and advertising and require warnings be placed prominently on the product packaging. Many municipalities now ban smoking in a variety of public venues due to health impacts on non-smokers breathing second-hand smoke.\n\nSmoking leads to various cronic and uncurable disease like CANCER, Heart and Lung diseases etc.etc.
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The combinations of being stressed out and smoking are two big risk factors for infections and many illnesses.  Being stressed out lowers the effectiveness of your immune system so that it is easier for you to get an infection.  At the same time, being a smoker makes people more prone to chest infections.  This is because the lungs contain something called cilia, microscopic, finger-like projections in the lungs that help move mucus that contains debris and other things like bacteria that has been inhaled.  When someone smokes, the chemicals in the cigarette basically paralize the cilia so that they cannot move the mucus and bacteria up out of the lungs.  This is why smokers get what is known as smoker's cough.  It is their body trying to get rid of all the nasty stuff that has accumilated in their lungs.  \n\nSo, you have two risk factors against you, the stress and the smoking.  Next comes bronchitis and possibly pneumonia.  After that, your lung cells are at risk of mutating and becoming something between normal cells and cancer cells.  At this stage, you can still stop smoking and your cells can go back to a relitively normal state and your cilia will be active once again. But after lung cells have changed to cancer cells, they cannot be changed back but only distroyed to prevent more cancer cells.  I would very much so recommend you stop smoking.  It may seem in the short run that it is helping you cope with stress, but in the long run it is causing you more by allowing you to get so many chest infections and other problems in the future.  \n\nI know this all seems harsh, but it is the truth.  Better you find out the truth so that you can stop things from happening to you before they do.  I hope everything goes well for you.\n\nAnother thing, taking antibiotics too often can cause the germs in your body that do survive to become resistent to the antibiotics.  This can basically create a super germ that antibiotics can no longer kill, and if that germ multiplies, well then you have a stronger germ that can't be killed by antibiotics.  It also makes you more prone to germs in hospitals.  Some doctor's have been known to give out antibiotics way more than neccisary, so I recommend you to read the article i have provided in the sources below.\n\nEDIT: it seems to me you should go see a phyciatrist.  I know there are certain stresses out there that are unavoidable, but being able to talk to someone and possibly getting on a medication that can help calm you might help out.  And everytime you pick up a cigarette, try to make yourself think of some of the things I have said, mainly that the cigarette is making you more stressed in the long run and that you would be way more stressed out than you are now if you had pnemonia or lung cancer on top of all of that.  Best of wishes to you.
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Heart Disease and Stroke\nSmoking causes fatty deposits to build up in the blood vessels, leaving them narrow or blocked. This leads to heart disease or stroke. About 40% of deaths due to heart disease before the age of 65 are related to smoking. \n\nCancer\nCigarette smoke contains more than 50 cancer-causing substances. \nSmoking is the most common, preventable cause of lung cancer. Smokers are 22 times more likely to develop lung cancer. 90% of all lung cancer cases in Singaporean males occur among smokers\n\nThe longer one smokes, the greater the risk of developing cancers such as cervical and breast cancer, cancer of the mouth, throat, larynx, pharynx, oesophagus, stomach, pancreas, kidney and bladder. \n\nChronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)\nSmoking narrows the airways and destroys the air sacs in the lungs. This makes breathing difficult. Smoking is the most common cause of COPD, which includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. COPD is the 6th largest cause of death in Singapore.\n\nBone Loss and Osteoporosis\nOsteoporosis is a disease that causes bones to lose density and become brittle, leading to hip, spine and wrist fractures. \n\nWomen who smoke are 50% more likely to suffer from osteoporosis than non-smokers. \n\nRe-productive and Sexual Health\nSmoking increases the risk of infertility in both men and women.\n\n  Men  \n  • Smokers are 50% more likely to suffer from impotence or erectile dysfunction. \n  • Smoking reduces the volume of ejaculation, lowers sperm count, distorts sperm shape and impairs sperm mobility.  \n\n   Women \n  • Women who smoke may experience early menopause and more menopausal symptoms. \n  • Smoking may lead to decreased egg counts due to destruction of eggs in the ovaries before the eggs reach maturity.  \n\n   • Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage, stillbirth, preterm delivery, and low birth weight. The smoke inhaled (either directly from a cigarette or from second-hand smoke) by a pregnant woman goes directly to her baby's lungs. It prevents as much as 25 % of oxygen from reaching the placenta.\n \n\n\nSecond-hand Smoke\nAbout 90% of the smoke from every cigarette ends up in the air as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). \n  ETS \n  • causes lung cancer in people who have never smoked before.  \n  • causes heart attack, especially among the spouses of smokers. ETS also increases the risk of repeated heart attacks if one has suffered from heart attack before. \n\n   • increases the risk of heart disease, lung disease, asthma, allergies, sinus problems, blood vessel disease or worsen the symptoms if one is already suffering from these.