Causes of smoking among students

 

It is to be investigated that mostly the youngsters are smokers and frequency of smoking is more prevalent among the college students.

If you want to reveal the main reason for smoking among college students are fashion and style, tension due to studies and family problems.  Now, if you go for an opinion -- 54 out of 60 non-smokers, have agreed that smoking is a bad habit.

No doubt, cigarette smoking is very common among college students.  Smoking can be defined as the inhalation of the smoke of burning tobacco i.e., wrapped in cigarettes, cigars, and pipes.  It can be defined in two aspects:

• Occasionally smoking
• Habitual smoking

Occasionally smoking is casual smoking, which is usually done in a social situation, fun, or to relieve stress.  Whilst habitual smoking is a physical addiction to products of tobacco.

According to health experts, habitual smoking is not only an addiction, a psychological addiction with life-threatening consequences.

According to the report of the World Health Organization (WHO) use of tobacco is responsible for the death of one in ten adults all over the world is about five million people die due to smoking-related health issues in the world every year. If the use of tobacco continues worldwide it is estimated that the annual death toll due to smoking related health problems will double within twenty-five (25) years.

Those who are regular cigarettes smokers likely to develop higher risk and suffering from:

• Heart disease
• Lung cancer
• Lung disease
• Stroke

It is also estimated that millions of people will develop prematurely chronic and debilitating tobacco- related illnesses.

Since young adults mostly in the university are smoking tobacco, which is a serious concern for any nation.  It represents a huge impact on economic costs and more specifically it is depriving the country of a healthy human resource which is, in the long run, are in the grip of diseases and causes overburden the health sector.

Initially, college students are started smoking tobacco as a fashion and style.  For them, smoking is a status symbol, which adds to their personality.  The other reasons may be their friends, relatives, respectable people in society smoke and hence directly or indirectly encourage them to smoke. Another reason may be advertisements of cigarette companies in which they portray movie stars and models as smokers and show it to be the modern fashion trend.

Perceptibly, this smoking habit later develops into addiction.  This is a bit alarming.

 

The main objective is to ascertain cigarette smoking among college students and to explore the causes of cigarette smoking among students.

Cigarette smoking is very common among college students. In general, many students do suffer from some kind of problems, mostly related to studies or family problems.  Thus, the students started to smoke in order to relieve their stress.  Now, they should understand the core value that the short-term effects of smoking can potentially reduce their stress, but it cannot solve their problems, and in fact causes many other long-term health problems.

Further in-depth research is recommended to assess the frequency of smoking on a larger scale. On the other side, health education and awareness campaigns should be promoted in young adults about the ill effects in order to decrease the frequency of smoking.