| Alarming statistics now show that in the US, teenage | | | | Unless well educated on the dangers, smoking can |
| smoking and tobacco use is an ingrained habit. As | | | | look very attractive. |
| many as 25% of 12th grade students and 28% of high | | | | Independence, glamor and even strength are often the |
| school students smoke daily. | | | | messages that advertisers depict around smoking and |
| What Are The Smoking And Tobacco Facts? | | | | a fragile teenage mind can easily be misled. |
| Reliable studies have now shown that some 6,000 | | | | The addiction. |
| teens begin to smoke everyday, 2,000 of whom will | | | | Nicotine is the active drug present in tobacco that |
| mature into smoking adults. Of today's adult smokers, | | | | causes addiction and dependency. Like most other |
| 80% say they began the habit before age 18. | | | | addictions smoking plays on the victims low |
| Many teens that smoke say they would wish to quit | | | | self-esteem and low self-image. |
| cigarettes but are unable to. By the time one has | | | | A teen smoker very often develops other anti-social |
| smoked their 100th cigarette, they are definitively | | | | behaviors like aggressiveness and is more likely to |
| hooked on the habit. | | | | abuse other drugs and substances like alcohol. |
| Why do teens smoke? | | | | The case for intervention in teenage smoking and |
| Teenagers in their search for adventure and behaving | | | | tobacco abuse is very strong, more than this the |
| in ways they consider cool or even breaking the rules. | | | | health of the teenage smoker is in great jeopardy. |