Through our social questionnaire, we know that the main reasons for teenagers smoking are curiosity and environmental impact.
Investigation on the harm of smoking to students' physical and mental health in our school: Teenagers who smoke have different reasons for smoking. In our questionnaire, the students all expressed their views. Here are their views after we screened them:
A classmate: "I think it should be their fashion psychology." They generally think that smoking is a fashion. If they don't smoke, they will fall behind. Only by joining the smoking team can they catch up with fashion. "
Student B: "Curiosity is the main reason. They usually start smoking out of curiosity and try everything, which makes them addicted. "
Classmate C: "Some students always like to imitate, and teenagers have a strong imitation psychology. When they see great men always smoking cigarettes when they think, they imitate them and think they are as great as great men! "
The student's point of view is right. The following is a survey result in society:
The survey results of "National Campaign for Children and Teenagers to Ban Smoking" show that 27.6% of the total number of people surveyed think that teenagers smoke because they are "curious"; Among the reasons for being influenced by people around, 23.5% are influenced by classmates around, 2 1.3% are influenced by family and society, and there are also media and other factors. 20. 1% always think that teenagers smoke to increase their personal charm; 5.6% teenagers think that smoking is forced by the pressure of study and life; Other reasons account for 1.9% of the total.
The survey results show that the average age of smokers in China is declining. The first smoking age of 1996 was 3 years earlier than that of 1984, and the youngest smoker was only 7 years old. Dr. Sun Jiangping from peking university health science center Institute of Child and Adolescent Health said that a survey of 1999 1 1957 students in 86 middle schools found that 22.5% of the students had tried smoking, and the average age of starting smoking was 10.7 years old, 83%.
The survey shows that 84.5% of children can realize that smoking is not only harmful to smokers and passive smokers, but also causes air pollution. Some children think that male smoking is a "normal phenomenon". Nearly 90% of children are in favor of smoking ban, and the number of girls is more than that of boys. "Affecting the national profits and taxes" and "can't ban, it won't work" are the main reasons for not agreeing to ban smoking. Many people suggest that the best way to ban smoking is to find "substitutes" and "eliminate smoke sources".
It seems that smokers have become younger and more feminine. If we don't destroy them, the consequences will be unimaginable!
The harm of smoking is manifold.
Smoking is very harmful to the health of developing teenagers, and has a certain degree of influence on bone development, nervous system, respiratory system and reproductive system. Because of the imperfect development, imperfect function and weak resistance of various organs in adolescence, the harm of smoking is even greater than that of adults. In addition, because the respiratory tract of teenagers is narrower than that of adults, and the cilia of respiratory mucosa are underdeveloped, smoking will damage the respiratory tract and produce inflammation, increase the resistance of breathing, reduce vital capacity, and affect the development of teenagers' thorax, thus affecting their all-round development.
A large amount of nicotine contained in tobacco is also toxic to the brain, which will reduce students' memory, listlessness and academic performance. The survey found that the academic performance of smokers was lower than that of non-smokers In addition, teenagers are in a critical period of sexual development, and smoking reduces testosterone secretion by 20%-30%, leading to sperm reduction and deformity; Girls have delayed menarche and menstrual disorders. Smoking among teenagers will also advance the onset age of coronary heart disease, hypertension and tumors. Relevant data show that the younger you smoke, the more serious the harm to your health. /kloc-The mortality rate of smokers who started smoking at the age of 0/5 is 55% higher than that of smokers who started smoking after the age of 25, and it is 1 times higher than that of non-smokers.
The following is a story about a boy aged 16 who got cancer from smoking:
From 65438 to 0998, the Department of Thoracic Surgery and Anesthesiology of Cancer Hospital of China Academy of Medical Sciences joined hands to take out the tumor for a teenager in time and successfully reconstruct the carina. The carina is the "communicating artery" where the trachea and the left and right bronchi breathe, and it must be kept unobstructed. Bi Mou, a middle school student aged 0/6 in a city in the south, has a tumor on the carina. Half a year ago, he developed symptoms, but unfortunately he was misdiagnosed by the local hospital and has been treated as a cold. After careful examination, the doctors of thoracic surgery and anesthesiology in Cancer Hospital of China Academy of Medical Sciences found that the tumor had blocked the patient's left bronchus, leaving only a small gap in the right bronchus. The operation is very difficult, especially anesthesia to ensure the safety of the operation. Although the cancer hospital has done dozens of medical breast augmentation operations and has a lot of experience in anesthesia for such operations, after all, the patients are young, the tumor is large, the condition is serious and the operation risk is high. If the operation is not done in time, the child will soon suffocate. Doctors' well-designed treatment scheme and skilled medical technology have given teenagers a new life.
How can a young middle school student get such a fatal disease? It turns out that he is a smoker and has been smoking for more than two years, from stealing to smoking in public until he needs to smoke three cigarettes a month. According to oncologists, when smoking, most smoke enters the lungs through trachea and bronchus, and a small part enters the digestive tract with saliva. Some harmful substances in smoke remain in the lungs, and some enter the blood circulation and flow to the whole body. Under the synergistic effect of carcinogens and cancer promoters, normal cells are damaged and become cancer cells. The younger you are, the more sensitive human cells are to carcinogens, and the greater the harm of smoking. The reason why this teenager suffers from cancer is the synergistic effect of his premature, excessive smoking and other cancer-promoting factors. Now, he not only says that he will never smoke again, but also intends to persuade his classmates and friends to give up smoking as soon as possible.
Therefore, the harm of smoking is multifaceted.
So how can teenagers stay away from cigarettes?
In our social questionnaire survey, students' opinions are colorful and diverse, which can be summarized as follows:
State: Strictly investigate the behavior of selling cigarettes to minors.
Family: Parents strictly discipline adolescent children, explicitly prohibit children from smoking, and help children to get through the period of psychological instability healthily.
Social aspect: Once underage children are found to smoke, they should immediately stop or inform their parents.
Therefore, the society should mobilize and work together to prevent smokers from becoming younger, so that teenagers can truly understand the harm of smoking, so as to stay away from smoking products and create a smoke-free environment.
Teenagers who are smoking, what I want to tell you is that if you don't realize it, it will eventually lead to the arrival of the god of cancer, just like teenagers aged 16, but they will not be so lucky. It is better to quit early than late, and it is right to stay away from cigarettes. For your life (every cigarette loses 4 seconds), please leave the cigarette under your feet and put it with your feet.
According to the data of the World Health Organization, the life expectancy of smokers who have smoked for 35 to 69 years will be shortened by 15 to 20 years. Smoking is the main risk factor of cardiovascular disease, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, lung cancer, pharyngeal cancer, oral cancer, respiratory infection and gastric ulcer. Every year, 2.5 million people in the world die prematurely from chronic bronchitis, emphysema or coronary heart disease due to smoking; Of the 60,000 new cases of lung cancer every year, 95% are related to smoking. Smoking is not only harmful to smokers themselves, but also harmful to non-smokers who are with smokers. According to the current situation, by 2025, 2 million people in China will die of smoking-related diseases every year, and these people will die in middle age, which will do great harm to families and society. According to the report of the World Health Organization, 1 people living in the world today will die if the current global smoking volume is maintained, that is, 500 million people will die from avoidable diseases caused by smoking. Dr Nakajima Hiroshi, Director-General of the World Health Organization, called for a collective attack on smokers to eliminate the social environment of free smoking. He said smoking is a habit. Sadly, this habit leads to 3 million premature deaths every year, and a smoker dies in about 65,438+00 seconds. Smoking can induce various diseases, especially cancer. Common diseases include lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, coronary heart disease and stroke. Smoking is also harmful to the fetus. When pregnant women smoke, it will have adverse consequences on the development of the fetus, such as birth defects and infections. Mother's smoking will lead to premature delivery, miscarriage and stillbirth, and smoking will continue to harm the baby after birth. Several parents who smoked realized more than a year later that their children had absorbed 30 to 80 cigarettes of nicotine through indirect smoking. Babies can also absorb harmful chemicals through breast milk. In addition, a study found that the urine of some primary school students in Japan contains chemical components of cigarettes, which indirectly reflects the number of smokers among parents.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says that there is no one way to stop teenagers from smoking and prevent them from smoking, but it believes that several measures will be effective at the same time, such as proper health education, raising cigarette prices, increasing tobacco taxes and establishing smoke-free areas in public places.
The survey shows that the number of smokers in China is increasing. In China, the smoking rate increased from 1986 to 3 1.9%, and the total number of smokers increased from about 250 million to about 300 million. It is worth noting that at present, smokers smoke for the first time at a young age, and most smokers start smoking before the age of 20. In this regard, the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Health expressed great concern and called on tobacco production enterprises to minimize the tar content in tobacco products. At this rate, by 2025, it is estimated that the number of premature deaths due to smoking will reach 2 million every year. Smoking not only causes great disease burden to our people, but also does great harm to society. According to the statistics of 1987, there are 243 fires caused by smoking. According to People's Daily (1990), smoking is also the inducement of juvenile delinquency. Among the minors who commit robbery and theft, 74% are caused by drinking and smoking, which seriously affects their physical and mental health. Another tragedy is that cigarettes are the chief culprit in destroying writers.
From China's famous modern writers Lu Xun and Zhu Ziqing to Mo Yingfeng, they died in middle age when they made great achievements, most of which were related to the tobacco disaster. Looking up the history of smoking, the writer has been attached to cigarettes for a long time.
In the 1920s, the History of Weeds written by Kong Qi, a European, and the Praise of Tobacco written by Ross, a Japanese, both advocated tobacco culture, believing that geniuses smoke and writers must smoke. For a long time, smokers were regarded as masculine, tenacious and sociable people. Liu, a descendant of three generations of Chinese studies, died of lung disease at the age of 36 due to excessive smoking. Liang Qichao was learned and versatile. At the age of 56, he died of lung cancer because of smoking. Mr. Lu Xun died at the age of 56. He smokes for a long time and needs a tube (50 cigarettes) day and night. A generation of writers are full of ideas, but they don't realize that it is the smoke that caused the disaster. Spraying nicotine day and night is killing people. Zhu Ziqing died of duodenal ulcer and Huang Kan died of gastric ulcer at the age of 565,438+0. Their common hobby is smoking, and nicotine is one of the killers of the two writers.
Can tobacco really inspire writers? Scientists have analyzed that smoking can cause "temporary excitement" of the nervous system and play a refreshing role. But if thinking is a "difficult problem", smoking will not only help people think, but will lead to confusion. Modern medicine has found out that tobacco and smoke contain hundreds of toxic substances, of which more than 20 are chemical carcinogens. Among them, the newly discovered "culprit" of cancer-reactive oxygen species can cause lung cancer, laryngeal cancer, tongue cancer and respiratory diseases, induce or aggravate ulcer disease and cardiovascular disease, and cause death. According to statistics, 60% of heavy smokers suffer from bronchitis, angina pectoris and heart failure. Recent research shows that tobacco leaves contain highly toxic cyanide. Long-term smokers, due to excessive intake of cyanide, accumulate in the body, will have chronic poisoning, leading to decreased vision.
Many countries in the world have written cigarette cases to warn the world. For example, in the United States, smoking among pregnant women can lead to fatal injuries, premature delivery and low birth weight. Russia: Smoking is harmful to health.
Japan: Please don't smoke for the sake of health.
Finland: If you don't smoke, you can breathe smoothly.
Oman: Smoking is the main cause of cancer, skin diseases, heart disease and arteritis.
Austria: Smoking is harmful to your health.
Belgium: Smoking is harmful to health.
Gibraltar: Smoking not only consumes your money, but also does more harm to your health.