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Smoking Causes and Intervention Strategies

Smoking Causes and Intervention Strategies

Introduction

Smoking is known for a number of years as a national health dilemma, since the health harm linked with snuff utilization causes more than half a million deaths in Australia. According to current reports, thousands of citizens expire prematurely because of smoking. Another new study indicates that contact to smoke from cigarettes smoked by other people, produced each year the deaths of thousands of non-smokers. In spite of statistics and several cautions about the hazards of smoking, millions of adults and adolescents persist to smoke.

Background Study

The word "tobacco" is thought to derive from the Native American word "tabago," for a Y-shaped pipe used in sniffing tobacco powder. Tobacco is a tall, leafy plant, originally grown in South and Central America, but now cultivated throughout the world. In adolescence, many young people begin experimenting with tobacco. Why do they do? Do they enjoy it? Is this how they intend to break away from everyday life? Unfortunately, this does not lead to anything good. As a result, smokers succumb to heart disease, cancer; have poor physical and mental condition. Nicotine is rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream through the lining of the mouth and upper respiratory tract, cardiovascular system damage, so often referred to as the heart and blood poison (Hopkins and Fielding, 2001, Pp. 16-66).

It is currently responsible for the death of one in ten adults' worldwide (about 5 million deaths each year). If current smoking patterns continue, it will cause some 10 million deaths each year by 2020. Half the people that smoke today - that is about 650 million people - will eventually be killed by tobacco." Why do young people turn to smoking, knowing that it is harmful to their health?

The most common cause is a society in which a young man is living. Young people, in whose surroundings are smoking friends or family members are more likely to mobilize the tobacco use. They want to prove thereby that they are adults, and strong. Many young people smoke because their parents do. Many young people want to forget about smoking issues. They think that this will get rid of what bothers them what to fear. And thus do not help them. Poison themselves and those who reside with them.

Research Aim

The aim of the study is to explore the causes and interventions strategies regarding the effects of tobacco smoking among adolescents. Highlight common themes from published primary research on the views and opinions of tobacco Smoking among young people. This in turn can be used to know whether the knowledge provide effectively and improve it as needed.

Research Questions

Following are the research questions for this proposed research:

What is the level of knowledge of young people regarding the effects of tobacco smoking?

What are the causes which leads young people towards smoking?

What intervention strategies can be developed for smoking?

Systematic Review

Cigarette smoking has been identified as the most significant source of preventable morbidity and premature mortality worldwide. Tobacco use usually begins in early adolescence, and almost all first use occurs before young people graduate from high ...