Teen+Smoking

t__ (Students Stopping Smoking)** __
 * S.S.S.

__**Who We Are:**__ James Alvarez, Jorge Cobian, Perla Garcia, Peter Hibben, Antonio Ramos, Kenna Schmidt

Teenage Smoking
 * __Topic:__**

Because we ahve seen smoking and we are concerned about how smoking affects them.
 * __Why We Chose This Topic:__**

__** What Were Our Actions? **__
 * 1) We researched information about smoking.
 * 2) We wrote surveys and gave them to 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th grade students at Newtom Middle School and Littleton High School.
 * 3) We tallied the results of our surveys.
 * 4) We typed this report on what we learned.
 * __What Were The Results?__**


 * Here are some of our notes: **

__ Why Teens Start Smoking __ · Because they think it’s cool · Because if they see someone else smoke they think you should · To be macho or sexy · To be cool · To be accepted by peers · Teens start smoking because people smoke in front of them and makes them want to smoke · They see that almost everyone is smoking so they do it so they aren’t the only ones that aren’t smoking · To make their family feel sad · To make new friends

__ Facts about # of Teens Who Smoke __ l More white girls smoke than black girls l In 2007 more black girls than white girls smoked in high school l more boy's smoke than girls l whites smoke more than blacks l teens wish they never Started to smoke l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> 70% or more people start smoking at a teenager or younger l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> 23% of high school students smoke cigarettes l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> half die of their habit l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> woman find it harder to quit smoking than men l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> teens are the most important costumers to tobacco companies l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> each year smoking kills more than 142,000 woman and 270,000 men l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> second hand smoke kills 3,000 none smokers per year l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> every day 3,000 kids start smoking l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> one million teenagers smoke

__ How smoking affects your body __ l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> lung problems l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> lose weight l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> cough problems l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> lung cancer and can cause death l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> illness and growth problems l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> Tobacco smoking can make your hair and clothes stink. l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> Tobacco stains your teeth and causes bad breath. l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> Short term use of spit tobacco can cause cracked lips, white spots, and sores and bleeding in mouth. l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> cough and phlegm illnesses l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> lower lung function l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> smoking can injure and effect your lungs and give you lung cancer l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> after you smoke your last cigarette your body goes through a series of changes

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Information about quitting smoking __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In 2001 14.7% students try to quit smoking and tried to tell other to quit.In 1999 black gius started to quit smoking there rate went really low among the black girls rate is still getting higher.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">There is a gum that can help you to quit.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Go on line and search smoking.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">You can go buy pills to help you quit.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">There are patches you can get from a pharmacy.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">There is chew but, that is still as bad.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">CNN.COM/HEALTH.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Woman find it harder to stop smoking.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">American cancer society.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">67% of Hispanics are trying to stop smoking but some keep smoking.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Old people try to quit before they are about 60 years old because if they are really old they can die.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Sometimes Doctors can prescribe you to pill that can help you.

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__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Other interesting information __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; text-align: center;"> l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In my sisters school(Euclid)this one guy made his own cigarettes and smoked with his mom l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">It is illegal to sell cigarettes to people under 18 in all states l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In 1901 an estimated 225 million packs of cigarettes were sold to teenagers l<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">In 1997 daily smokers aged 12 to 17 years smoked 924 million packs of cigarettes


 * Next, we gathered information about smoking from 7th and 8th grade students at Newton Middle School and 9th and 10th grade students at Littleton High School. We wanted to find out the smoking habits of students at these schools. This is what our data shows:**

**__ Graph Title: Smoking Habits __** __ **Analysis of graph data:** __
 * There are more students that have family members who smoke than don't.
 * More 9th grade students have family members that smoke more than any other grade.
 * Most 10th graders know someone who has health problems because they smoke.
 * More teen know people who have health problems as a result of smoking than don't know people who have health problems as a result of smoking.
 * Most teens do not feelthey should smoke because of peer pressure.
 * Fewer teens smoke that don't smoke.
 * The number of teens who do smoke increases with each grade level.


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 * __Graph Title: Non-smokers__** ||
 * <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[[image:nonsmokers1.jpg]] ||
 * **__ Analysis of graph data: __*** The numbers of students asked to try smoking goes up as the grade levels go up.
 * Fewer and fewer students have not been asked to smoke as the grade levels go up.
 * Few 7th graders have lost friends because they didn't want to try smoking.
 * More 10th graders lost friends because they didn't want to smoke.
 * Not many 8th graders want to try smoking.
 * The number of students who have wanted to try smoking is highest in 9th grade.
 * More 9th graders than 7th, 8th and 10th graders have family members who smoke.
 * More students have family members who smoke than don't.
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Graph Title: Non-smokers __** ||
 * <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[[image:nonsmokers2.jpg]] ||
 * __**Analysis of graph data:**__ * Most non-smokers do not get tempted by advertisements.
 * As students go through the grade levels more get tempted by advertisements to smoke.
 * Most 9th graders have friends that smoke
 * As students go through the grade levels, more of them have friends who smoke.
 * More 7th graders dislike being around second-hand smokers than any other grade level.
 * More 9th graders are not bothered by second-hand smoke than other grade levels.


 * __ Graph Title: Smokers __** ||
 * <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[[image:smokers1.jpg]] ||
 * <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> __**Analysis of graph data:**__


 * All the grades have the same percent of students who have smoked for 1 year.
 * 10th graders had the most students who had smoked more than 2 years.
 * 8th and 9th grade students have the same number of students who smoked their first cigarette between the ages of 0 and 10.
 * Most of the 7th graders have smoked their first cigarette between the ages of 0 and 10.
 * 7th and 8th grade students have the same percent of students who smoke more than 5 cigarettes a day.
 * Most of the 9th graders smoke 1-2 cigarettes a day.

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Graph Title: Smokers **__ ||
 * <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[[image:smokers2.jpg]]
 * __ Analysis of graph data: __**
 * No student said they had health problems because they smoked.
 * Similar numbers of students answered no and no answer in regard to health problems.
 * Some students have tried to quit smoking and some have not.
 * Some students regret smoking, and some do not. ||
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Graph Title: Smokers __** || Analysis of graph data: __**
 * <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[[image:smokers3.jpg]] ||
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 * 8th, 9th and 10th grade smokers have wanted to try other drugs.
 * More 10th graders than any other grade level have said that smoking didn't make them want to try other drugs.
 * 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th grade have the same percentage of student smokers who feel addicted to cigarettes.
 * More 10th grade students hide their smoking from their parents.
 * More 9th graders don't hide their smoking from their parents. ||