The need for greater awareness
Behind every single puff of smoke your troubled teenager takes, lay grave consequences for him/her in the long-term. There are a significant number of diseases which may be acquired by your teen that may be associated with smoking. It has even been observed that smoking may lead to higher rates of premature fatality in users.
In actuality, many adults who develop the habit of smoking may have started as a teenager. Diseases which may spring from abuse of tobacco have even been projected by researchers to be the cause of death of a great number of underaged smokers (more than 5 million). This particular projection emphasizes the need for greater awareness among parents regarding teen smoking.
This is not an issue that may affect one gender more than the other. Both genders actually have like rates of smoking per day. So if your adolescent may be a son or a daughter, you must keep on your toes to catch the signs of a smoker before he or she gets hooked.
What’s the real deal about smoking?
What’s so harmful about tobacco? What exactly in it harms your teen? Nicotine. This substance is actually the drug which exists in the leaves of tobacco, and it affects a teenager’s brain with his or her puff of smoke. The brain is affected by nicotine, no matter if it’s smoked or taken in by your teen’s body in other ways such as chewing tobacco or sniffing it.
There is around 10 milligrams of nicotine in one cigarette. But not all of the 10 milligrams is absorbed by the smoker’s lungs, only around 1-2milligrams are actually received through the smoke taken in. To give you an idea of how dangerous this drug can be, aside from the fact that it may be utilized as a pesticide, a single globule of one hundred percent nicotine can be fatal for a person. Among teenagers, several nicknames for cigarettes may be used such as cigs, smokes, butts or for other forms of tobacco-- chew, snuff, dip, spit.
If you don’t happen to catch cigarettes or cigars around the house or in your teen’s room. There are other ways in which your teen may be abusing the substance. He/she may be powdering the tobacco and then sniffing it or using chewing tobacco instead.
What’s the smoking teen trend?
Cigarettes may be a more popular form of the abuse of tobacco but there is also another trend which has been catching the teenage eye—bidis. Bidis are of Indian origin, hand-rolled, and are appealing to teenagers because of the different colors and flavors they come in. But despite their attractive appearance, bidis contain even a greater amount of nicotine than normal cigarettes and are thus more habit-forming as well.
Teenagers may believe that they aren’t as harmful as they can be because of their packaging, but in actuality they can do more harm to an adolescent’s lungs than a cigarette can.
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