The health risks from smoking are common knowledge, yet each and every day between 80 - 100 thousand adolescents around the world experiment with their first cigarette.
Estimates suggest that 1/3 of all people who smoke as little as one cigarette will become full-time smokers and that 90% of all smokers become addicted to cigarettes while children or in their teens.
Most teenage smokers make the decision to smoke cigarettes on a whim swayed by peer pressure and the need to identify with their social group with little or no thought about future health risks or overall cost of smoking cigarettes year in and year out.
One surprising fact is that in many economically developed countries it is teen girls that are more likely to start smoking within certain age groups than boys. In a study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council it was found that girls in the 13-14 and 15-16 age group were twice as likely to take-up smoking than boys.
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Teenage Smoking - The Life and Blood of the Tobacco Industry
The chemicals found in cigarettes result in hormonal imbalances and fat being stored abnormally with an increased hip to waist ratio. According to the American Journal of Public Health, girls who smoke 10 cigarettes per day have an increased risk of abdominal obesity with a waist size 1.34 inches larger than that of a non-smoker.
In boys however, 10 cigarettes per day during the ages of 12-17 stunts growth with a smoker being 1 inch shorter in height than a non-smoker and also reduces body mass index. Teenage boys that smoke between the age of 12-17 are both shorter and skinnier according to a study by the Canadian Cancer Society.
Estimates suggest that 50% of adolescents who begin smoking will continue smoking for 15-20 years and as it says on every cigarette pack you buy "Smoking Kills!" There are over 32 different diseases and illnesses that result from smoking long-term with smoking reducing life expectancy by between 7-30 years, and accounting for 4 million deaths globally each year with a smoker dying from tobacco use every 8 seconds
For those teen smokers who feel the future is to far of to spend time worrying today about the consequences of smoking long-term, then maybe the fact that cigarettes smoking is a primary cause of premature aging could sway your decision to continue smoking.
The Chief Medical Officer of the UK highlighted the link between smoking and skin damage saying that smoking adds between 10-20 years to your natural age.
Teenage Smokers - The Life and Blood of the Tobacco Industry
To repeat what has already been said: 90% of all smokers become addicted to cigarettes while children or in their teens and as the saying goes is the tobacco industry "A smoker is a smoker for life no matter how short that life is"
For every smoker that will quit smoking cigarettes or die from a smoking related disease a new smoker is needed to fill their shoes and it is teenage smokers that are the life and blood of the tobacco industry. According to the 1994 US Surgeon General Report [Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People] - "When young people no longer want to smoke the epidemic itself will die."
Finally, if you are a teenage smoker than it is important to understand that 70% of adult smokers would like to stop smoking or regret ever starting.
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One reason that accounts for this high rate of teen girls smoking is the cigarette being used as a substitute for food and a way to reduce appetite and control weight. In teenage girls however, cigarettes do not result in a slimmer waist-line.
Overall, the more cigarettes you smoke each day and the longer you have smoked the greater your cigarette addiction and smoking habit will be and the greater your difficulties when you finally attempt to stop smoking, the advice any adult smoker would give to a non-smoker would be, don't start.
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