Help to Prevent Smoking ?

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Popular targets for culpability include the tobacco industry and its alleged manipulation of nicotine content, print advertising, and lack of government regulation. Although the aforementioned play a role in decision making in reality children smoke for two reasons. The first reason children smoke is because the people they admire smoke. In many American homes, they are simply modeling themselves after one or both parents, grandparents or other key people in the household. One also need look no farther than Hollywood, where there has been a significant increase in instances of onscreen smoking that is also amplified by the current cigar craze. Adolescents, by definition, grasp at the trappings of adulthood and as smoking is an adult activity that is forbidden, its allure is further intensified. The second reason ties in teen cravings for affirmation and acceptance. They will associate with the individuals or group that is the most powerfully affirming and accepting. They will adopt the standards and behaviors of that group, no matter how dangerous or unhealthy, as failure to do so could mean rejection, expulsion, ridicule or worst of all, loneliness. Adolescents have an acute need for expressed, felt love. Paradoxically, they appear to be uncomfortable responding to that love, highlighting a mistake that many parents make as they begin an apparent retreat from their children once they reach adolescence. The reasons having been delineated, a preventive response is mandatory. This is essential because the addictive nature of tobacco use, once begun, is so profound. Surveys of teens have clearly indicated that they experimented with cigarettes because they assume they could easily stop at some time in the future, yet sadly they are no more successful in quitting than most adults. Help How can we reduse the risk of smoking or prevent it.