Related Video Collections
All Comments
Should smoking cigarettes be allowed at high schools but teens have a designated area? no secondhand smoke, teens could smoke if they want. Other teens that do not like cigarettes wouldn't be susceptible to smoke and smoking. | | In twenty years time, when they have lung cancer, they'll sue saying that the schools should have prevented them from smoking since they were too young to fully realise the risk that they were taking. | What is your opinion on teens and smoking? I'm writing a persuasive essay on how smoking should be banned because it is harming teenagers..
I need your suggestions on some reliable and credible websites that can give me information on this topic. These are some questions that i came up with.
How are teenagers aquiring cigarettes?
Why are teens smoking?
When do teens start smoking?
What are the effects of smoking on teenagers?
Where do smoking teenagers end up in life?
Does living around smokers affect their decision?
Thanks | 1. Take them from their parents or a family member, some parents give their guyren cigarettes, get them from an older friend, some look older so have no problem buying them
2. They think they look cool, because their friends do, peer pressure, to look older, to impress a guy/girl, to rebel
3. early teens around 13 where i live anyway.
4. stinking breath and clothes, yellow teeth and hands, early wrinkles, increasing their rate of cancer, heart attacks, strokes, black lungs, breathlessness, find it difficult to participate in sport because they can't run around for too long
5. everyone is different so i can't really say one way or the other. For some it leads to harder drugs and a dangerous lifestyle, others grow out of smoking and live a happy life, and others continue to smoke but still lead happy lives
6. No, because both my parents lived in homes with smoking parents but none of them smoke. If anything living with parents who smoke puts the guys off it. | Teens still buying ciggs Cigarette tax is supposed to make smoking unaffordable to teens? At first it wasnt about second hand smoke. It was about teens smoking | It was about money not health.
You could make cigarettes 20 dollars a pack and teens would still buy them. Hell, here in New York they run from 8-11 dollars a pack. Not stopping anyone. | When you walk to home and you found two teens smoking ever for first time, do you get surprised? I walked to home today and I just saw two teens hiding from their Catholic school and started to smoke. They saw me and they don't care about me and started to hide from me. I don't know why but I was not surprised because I know that many teens smoke.
| if you think that's bad
you should see the guys on at my school, on school property smoking!
as soon as the bell rings theirs like 50 guys running around with smoke in their hands.
they cut class to smoke weed and all that stuff, it's terrible.
on my way home i see so many teens smoking, i'm not phased by it anymore. i used to feel so bad, and my heart went out to these guys i go to school with, but they don't want to change, so there's nothing i can do. i used to try talking to them about it but they didn't wanna hear it =/
sadly majority of my friends either smoke or drink, if it's not one thing then it's the other.
i actually have never had a cigarette or an alcoholic breverage
and i hate to make it seem that all teens are like this cause it's not true, not everyone does this, but yeah
| How many people die from smoking a year? how many of them are teens? i am doing a school project on teens smoking and i need to know how many people die from smoking a year and how many of them are teens...can you help me out? | | I can find no statistics supporting teen deaths from smoking. It is not even in the top 50 causes. Sorry | How many teens start smoking cigarettes each year? I am working on a project in which i am trying to see how many teens start smoking/ die from cigerettes/ second hand smoke each year.
If anyone has any other information about teenagers and smoking ,please tell me, its much appreciated.
Thanks! | | I have seen the number 3000 as the number of guys who start smoking every DAY. As to how many die from smoking or secondhand smoke each year, I would have to say zero. It takes a lot of smoking for it to kill you, and very few people start smoking heavily as toddlers. | What are the pros of teens smoking? Im not looking to smoke. Im writing an article and I was asked to talk about why a teen would start smoking in the first place. Also, do you think it would be okay to mention that the reason they are legal is that the government makes a lot of money from it? | | They are stupid | There was a news special on about teens smoking an herb/flower to get high- what is it? My father called me and said on the ABC news the other night there was a special about highschool guys and college guys going to the health food store and buying some type of herb/flower and smoking it to get high. As a concerned parent, I was wondering if anyone knew what it is they are smoking? Apparently, guys have even died from it. | They probably were talking of Salvia Divinorum
...Here is a article about it.....
Drugs and Chemicals of Concern
| --------…
SALVIA DIVINORUM AND SALVINORIN A
(Street Names: Maria Pastora, Salvia)
January 2007
DEA/OD/ODE
Introduction:
Salvia divinorum is a perennial herb in the mint family native to certain areas of the Sierra Mazateca region of Oaxaca, Mexico. The plant grows in large groupings to over three feet in height. Characteristics of the plant include large green leaves, hollow square stems and white flowers with purple calyces. Salvia divinorum is one of several plants that have been employed by the Mazatec Indians for ritual divination and healing. In recent years the active ingredient of Salvia divinorum has been identified as salvinorin A.
There has been interest among young adults and adolescents to discover ethnobotanical plants that can induce hallucinations, changes in perception, and other psychological effects. Since neither Salvia divinorum, or any of its constituents, are listed in the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA), a variety of Internet sites have appeared advertising Salvia divinorum as a legal alternative to plant hallucinogens such as mescaline. Seeds, fresh and dried leaves, plant cuttings, whole plants, and various extracts are purported to be sold over the Internet.
Licit Uses:
Neither Salvia divinorum or active constituent Salvinorin A, has an approved medical use in the United States.
Chemistry and Pharmacology:
Salvinorin A, also called Divinorin A, is believed to be the ingredient responsible for the psychoactive effects of Salvia divinorum. Chemically it is a neoclerodane diterpene found in the leaves, and to a lesser extent in the stems. Other substances have been isolated from the plant, but with the possible exception of salvinorin C, none have been shown to be psychoactive.
In the United States, plant material is either chewed or smoked. When chewed, leaf mass and juice are maintained within the cheek area with absorption occurring across the lining of the oral mucosa (buccal). Effects first appear within 5 to 10 minutes. Dried leaves, as well as extracts purported to be enriched with salvinorin A, are smoked. Smoking pure salvinorin A, at a dose of 200-500 micrograms, results in effects within 30 seconds and lasts about 30 minutes.
A limited number of studies have reported the effects of using either plant material or salvinorin A. Psychic effects include perceptions of bright lights, vivid colors and shapes, as well as body movements and body or object distortions. Other effects include dysphoria, uncontrolled laughter, a sense of loss of body, overlapping realities and hallucinations (seeing objects that are not present). Adverse physical effects may include incoordination, dizziness and slurred speech.
Recent studies using tissue testing (in vitro) assays and functional assays show that salvinorin A acts as a potent agonist on the kappa opioid receptor. This may explain the psychoactive effects of Salvia divinorum and salvinorin A since other drugs acting at kappa opioid receptors have been found to cause dysphoria, illusions, and hallucinations.
Illicit Uses:
Salvia divinorum is chewed or smoked to induce illusions and hallucinations, the diversity of which is described by users as similar to those induced by ketamine, mescaline, or psilocybin.
User Population:
Information on the user population is limited. It appears to be mostly younger adults and adolescents influenced by promotions of the drug on Internet sites.
Illicit Distribution:
Salvia divinorum is grown domestically and imported from Mexico and Central and South America. The Internet is an important venue for the promotion and distribution of Salvia divinorum. It is sold as seeds, fresh or dried leaves, plant cuttings, whole plants, and extracts purported to contain salvinorin A.
Control Status:
Salvia divinorum and salvinorin A are not currently controlled under the CSA. However, a number of states have placed controls on Salvia divinorum and/or salvinorin A. In 2005, Louisiana made it illegal to purchase or distribute Salvia divinorum. Both Delaware and Missouri have added Salvia divinorum and salvinorin A into Schedule I of the states’ drug regulations. Tennessee and Oklahoma have also passed legislation on Salvia divinorum in 2006. In addition, as of January 2007, legislative bills proposing regulatory controls on salvinorin A and/or Salvia divinorum are pending in Alaska, Illinois, Maine, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, and Virginia. Internationally, salvinorin A and/or Salvia divinorum have been placed under regulatory controls in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Italy, Spain, and Sweden. | Did anyone know that Vermont is number 2 for pot smoking teens in the country?? I just found these statistics and I am astonished. If anyone has any more input I would greatly appreciate it. | | 2 ?? get to work Vermont! | What percent of American teens are smoking? what is the percent of teens that smoke in 2009? | | Far too many in my opinion. |
|