Secondhand Smoking and Its Danger


It is a known fact that smoking is bad for one’s health. Various sources remind smokers every day about the danger they put themselves through. Every cigarette pack they take states that smoking causes lung cancer. However, millions of people choose to smoke regardless of all these warnings. But what about those who do not smoke, but have to breathe in the smoke? What about children who have no idea about harmful effect of the smoke and have to inhale the smoke from their parents’ cigarettes?
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Smoking in Movies


Since media is one of the major factors that bring up a child’s mind, the authorities are anxious about the information the teens get from TV, radio, Internet. There are several filters that allow caring parents control the videos watched by children or block the websites that would bring wrong message to teens. All the films have ratings according to which a parent can decide if it is ok to show the movie to children. There are strict rules for language, violence, drugs and sex in films, but what about such common habit as smoking?
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Teens Smoke Trying to Lose Weight


At the time of puberty young boys and girls are worried about their look much more than people of other ages. Due to hormonal changes many of them gain some weight, so teenagers use various available means to lose it.

Young adults learn about weight-control methods mostly from their friends, so they start skipping meals substituting them with cigarettes. Smoking doesn’t help to lose weight as many of them think, but it does kill craving for food.
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Harvard Research: Menthol-Flavoured Cigarettes Used to Lure Adolescents


According to the report published by the Associated Press, tobacco corporations intentionally altered the menthol levels in their products depending on their target consumers. If the cigarettes were marketed to younger smokers, the levels of nicotine and menthol in them were reduced; while tobacco products to “hook on” more experienced smokers featured larger quantities of both nicotine and menthol. This information is based on a study conducted by scientists of the Harvard School of Public Health.

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Women Are Increasingly Prone to Suffering from Tobacco-Related Diseases – New Research


According to ScienceDaily, smoking-related diseases and especially death rates among both American and European women have been on a significant rise within the recent decades. This troubling statistics show that aggressive anti-smoking measures that are being implemented in the US and such European countries as France, as well as worldwide, are not enough to prevent the spread of tobacco-related deaths among the global female population.

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