The differences between personal feelings of those who smoke and those who don’t are shown in behavioral changes that are more evident in teens than adults. Teens seem to be more abrasive when smoking or they feel like they are older and wiser when they smoke.

Despite the number of health warnings that there have, it is very incomprehensible that many young people are taking up smoking. It's a serious problem, especially in the case of young girls who are increasingly joining the ranks of smokers. Teen smoking is on increase and the long term health risk are at worry stage. And addition to smoking, their health is further threatened by a inactive lifestyle and poor diet. This situation is like a ticking bomb waiting to go off.

Why those health warnings didn't work on the young? It is harder to influence a young person not to smoke if adults around them, including parents, gratify in the habit themselves. Although smoking is decreasing in general population but teen smoking continues to be a problem. Despite the ban on smoking in public places, the increased cost and the ban on tobacco advertising in some countries.

Teenagers look for their friends approval as peer pressure  has always been a factor in these matters. I know it is hard to say no but there must be a way of making smoking an uncool thing to do. This is difficult in the current atmosphere of smokers being sensed as anti-social. Being anti-social attracts the young in the first place. Perhaps some celebrities, such as rock stars and rap singers, could launch an anti teen smoking campaign. This could be worth more than a thousand sermons from the government.

In this war of persuasion farinaceous tactics have to be employed. The facts should speak for themselves but it's hard to get a young person's attention by telling them that their lungs will stop functioning in twenty years time. It's better to concentrate on the here and now and emphasize that their clothes smell of cigarette smoke, their teeth and fingers are stained and their breath smells. Teen smoking could stop if they think that they're not going to get a girlfriend or boyfriend because of it.

Teens like to act as if they are someone special or dangerous. By smoking they can act on those feelings. Because it is so forbidden it becomes more alluring to teens. The problem is that when they take that first puff, they can become addicted. The idea that they are breaking the law or going against their parents and schools is an addiction within itself.

Compared with other initiatives involving recreational drug use and alcohol abuse still there isn't enough effort being into this problem. And one of the drug mentioned here is the cigarettes that should be treated. Teen smoking is every bit as important and on a huge scale. It will take courage on the part of young smokers too. They need the help of us all; government, health care providers, schools, friends and families.

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