Influences of smoking

Influences

There are a number of influences on people to start smoking, i am going to look on three types of influences, these influences are celebrities, parents and friends. These are the main influences of smoking.

Influences
Celebrities


Many teenagers have a celebrity role model, what if this celebrity smokes, does this mean that the teenager will copy? Most defiantly because to the teenager the smoking looks like its a cool thing to do, copying what they think is right. Celebrities make smoking look like a elegant and sophisticated habit, they may not realise it but they encourage smoking to teenagers. (Its the same as a girl getting a a new hair style like her celebrity role model).

To be able to make a statement like i have i researched and found this

"Researchers who spoke to 600 schoolchildren have revealed that images of stars smoking in films and magazines has a powerful impact on kids"


http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/chat/your_comments/newsid_3743000/3743304.stm

These celebrities are Colin Farrell, Robert Pattinson and Kayne West. These images have been taken by google.

Influences
Parents


Another influence of smoking is parents that smoke, if a parent constantly smoke around their children, does that mean that they are most likely to smoke, if they have been living with it for years would they be able to cope without it?
It is twice as likely that a parent who smokes will influence their children to smoke rather than a parent who doesn't. smoking is most likely to start between the ages of 13-21. (With parents who smoke).

These images have been taken from google, to show the influence of smoking that parents have on their children.

The information that i have used is from 

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/31304.php

A very good example of parents having a influence on children to smoke is the advert for the NHS, which is about parents and smoking. I think that the way they have used the song and the editing works well together. I think that this advert makes you realise that your children do copy you and that they will in anything.

Here is the URL for the video which is on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=688uHz6QYkQ

Influences

Friends

Smoking around friends can sometimes make the other friend who doesn't smoke, smoke. some friends pressure their friends to smoke because it gives them a good effect, or its cool to do, you will make more friends if you smoke.

Where is this an influence?

School
College
University
Pubs
Work
Socialising

The image that i have used is from google, to show the influence of friends.
The information that i have collected is from the website
http://smoking.ygoy.com/how-peer-pressure-infulences-smoking/

I think that there is alot to play on friends influencing smoking because you can smoke anywhere and they know that. Teenagers see smoking as a good look and then encourage their friends to do it, to make them look cool.

Most of my friends are smokers and they started smoking because of their friends, hanging around them for so long whilst they smoked, made them like the smell, and got them started.
I asked two friends why they started smoking, this was their response.

Stacey Ann Street 11 December at 12:37 Report

I started smoking because I was drunk and somebody offered me a fag so I took it and have been smoking since :) x

 

Martin Morris 11 December at 12:43 Report

i started smokeing becuse all my friends were smokeing nd i was drun lol i thoughti wud give it a lil ty lyk nd i dint mind it so i been smokeing ever since