Fatal addiction...facts about teen smoking [Sept. 2003]

Fatal Addiction
...facts about

Secondhand smoke is a mixture of the smoke given ofd by the burning end of a cigarette, pipe, or cigar and the smoke that is exhaled from the lungs 04 a smoker. This mixture contains mote than 4,000substances, more than 40 of which are known to cause cancer in humans. Exposure to secondhand smoke is
oftencalled involuntary smoking or passive smoking. 'Kids who breathe secondhand smoke:
+ are more likely to suffer from pneumonia, bronchitis, and other lung diseases.
* can have more ear infections.
can have more asthma attacks and the episodes can be more Severs. Secondhand smoke may also cause thousands of healthy children to develop asthma each year. Infants and very young children who breathe secondhand smoke are more likely to get lung infections, resulting in thousand of hospitalizations each

* More thsn five million young peaple under the age d l 8 alive t d a y will evsntually die from smoking-relateddisease, unless cunent mtes are reversed. * Tobacco use is the sfngle most preventable cause of death m the United
- Every day in the United Slates, more than 3,000 young people become regu-
lar smokers that's more than one milllon new smokers a year. r The agar fad has reached kids. In 1999,25.4 percent of boys and 9.9 percent of girls ~ngrades 9-12 reported hawng smoked a clgar at least ones in the last

+Young peciple who use tobscc~may be more likely to use alcohol and other

drugs such as m i n e and marijuana.
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Among high school seniors who have ever used spit tobacco, almost three-

fourths began by the nintfi grade.
--Pmyeoting T o h a d U H Arrmp Yaurrg -:A

Re* d Ifw Surgson Genarel, f994.

+ If men smoke heavily during their teens and twendes, they risk becoming impo-

tent In their 30s and 40s.
- 6 f i s h M e d d AssXUlMe n d m m Smoking a d Henm
.,Almost 90 percent of adult smokers began at or belore age la. More than three

million kids age 12-17 are mmnt smokers. + Mow than a thrrd of all kids who ever try smoking a cigaretle become regular, dally smokers before leaving wgh school.

past-month smoking among eighh and tenth graders is more than 20 percent

higher now than in 1991.

+ In 2002, 123,952 kids have become regular smokes-41,317 will eventually die

from their addiehion.
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Research studbes have indicated that every cigarette a person smokes takes

a m six minutes off h~srhelrife.

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;@ ~ a l kdirectly to children abwt the rlsks of tchaeco use:

:I if friends or relatives dl& from lobacco-related illnesses,

t1. your kids know.

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I best move, ol course. Is m quit. Meanwhile, don?use

tobacco in your children's presence. donutoner it to

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S+anthe dialog about tobsno u% at age five a rlx and continue through thelr high school years. Many kids

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IQ ~ i s c u s sthe false glamorIrationof tobacco on blllbwrds 1

! and other media, such as movies, lV,and magazines. !

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! don't sell tobacco to kids. Frequent restaurants and other I

places that sre tobacmtree.

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sponing events. etc.) are tobacco-be.
i@partner with your 1-l tobacco prevention pwrams.

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how YW and yuur kids can get involved.

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1 t~bccta,mund playen. Remind them of the

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i@ Consider pamering with ywr local tobacco prevention

program. Voice your suppon for tobacco-free schools,

5~0110,and other community events.

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Scarv Statistics For Teens in Georqia:

High school students who smcke

35%

r High school males who use splt tobarn

21%

r Number of klds (urder 18) who become

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new dally smokers each year

* Kkls exposed to s&hand smoke in ihe home 423.000

+ Number of packs of cigarettes bought or smoked 29.5 mllllofi by kids In Georgia each year

+ Estimated number of Gaorgla klds now under

18 who will die ftcnn smoking

(H current trends continue)

+ Estimatedportion of tobacco adveitlsingand

marketing expenditures spent in

Ewrgla each year

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Have You Heard about Spit Tabamel

+14.2 percent of U.S. high school boys (grades 9-12) are ~ u m t ( p s r 30 days) spit ~obaccousers. Less than two pcrrrnt of high s c h d girls are spit users.
+18.8 pemnt of Caucasian high school boys are cymnt spit tobacco usem.
+spit tobacco u ~ r arre up ro SO times more likely to get oral cancer
than m-ustn.
UK or spit ~obaceacan Itad to oral cancer,gum disc=, and nicotine addiction. and increasesthe risk of Eardiovaxulardi-,
including heart anack,
+spit tobacco causes gum di- (gingivitis), which a n Ecsd ro h n e

and tooth Iws,

+ ~ t u k o ~ l a k i a .which can lead to ml canm. occurs in more lhan half of all users in h e first t h e years of use. Studies have found that a)to 78

percent of spit tobacm users have o d lcsions.

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