Teens Smoking

Did you know -

Most first users of tobacco occurs before they graduate from High School. If you can keep your teens from smoking when they are adolescents, most will never start using tobacco.

The younger you are when you start smoking, the more likely you will suffer from long term nicotine addiction and smoke well into your adult life. People who start smoking later in life have a better chance at quitting smoking.

Teens smoking are the chief source of new consumers for the tobacco industry, which each year, must replace the many consumers who quit smoking and those who die from smoking-related diseases.

Tobacco companies spend over 16 million dollars a day to sell cigarettes, hoping to get a teen smoking or anyone else for that matter.

One cigarette marketing plan noted, "The industry is dominated by the companies who respond most effectively to the needs of the younger smoker."British Medical Journal, August 23, 1997, p. 439

Of the four million adolescents who smoke, more than three-quarters come from homes where one or both parents also smoke. American Medical News, January 24, 1994, p. 11

Philip Morris sells more than $1 billion worth of Marlboro cigarettes to underage smokers each year just in the United States. JAMA, March 17, 1993, p. 1356

Are your Teens smoking? Talk to them and discuss the risks of tobacco use. If you know someone with a tobacco related illness discuss it with your adolescent.

If you smoke don't smoke in front of them. If you smoke explain to them how hard it is to quit and that because you are addicted to a drug called nicotine, the withdrawal symptoms are very difficult to overcome. Some want to smoke because they think it's cool.

Explain that stinky tobacco breath is not cool, stinky tobacco smelling clothes aren't cool and hacking and coughing as they soon will be doing is really not cool at all. Be non-threatening and understanding. Be supportive. If you say DON'T you know they WILL. Be tactful.

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