Peer pressure and teenage smoking

Peer pressure and teenage smoking

Introduction5

About the study5

Smoking in the teenage6

Problem statement7

Research aims and objectives8

Research questions8

Limitation of the study9

Significance of the study9

Ethical Concern9

Literature review11

Smoking as a whole11

Smoking in the world of today12

Smoking in teens and adolescents13

Smoking in the youth of United Kingdom14

Methodology16

Overview of qualitative and quantitative research approaches16

Research design17

Secondary research18

Benefits of secondary research18

Data analysis methods19

Validity of the research20

Quantitative study21

Findings and discussion23

Teenage smoking23

Peer Pressure24

Parents24

Peer education25

Policies26

Conclusion29

Findings29

Recommendation30

Address the issues in the family31

Peer pressure31

Taking the grass root approach31

References32

Peer pressure and teenage smoking

Abstract

The paper discusses the problem of escalating teenage smoking, as well as, the respective background and foreground. The paper discusses the reasons behind increasing teenage smoking, as well as, the initiates that are needed to be taken in this regard. The paper manly corresponds to the role of health promotion, as well as, its role in developing obstruction and eradicating teenage smoking. The paper focuses the escalation of teenage smoking through peer pressure, as well as, its eradication through prompt course of health promotion.

Introduction

The study focuses upon a major societal problem, that is, the problem of rising smoking tendency and the rate of rising smoking in the Teenage. One of the major causes of the problem getting more horrendous and crucial every going day is due to the excessive peer pressure. Peer pressure is one of the highest contributing factors that cause the smoking to rise. In teen age, an individual is most vulnerable to the peer pressure, and therefore, develops a tendency to smoke. As a consequence, the reports depict a very significant rise in the development of smoking among the teens (Kiesbye, 2007, pp. 49-76).

The chapter deals with the idea of the research, as well as, the focus of the study. The chapter encompasses of the background, as well as, the foreground of the research study. The chapter throws a light upon the study itself, as well as, the significance of the study in the world that is prevailing. The chapter focuses the study itself, rather than, the problem of the study and looks into the scope of the study that is carried out to address a serious problem in the human society of today. The paper depicts the study in a big picture and determines the direction and focus of the study.

About the study

The term smoking itself, is considered to be immensely harmful to the health of the mankind on general. The term is defined as “a practice where a substance, particularly, the inhaling of tobacco or other substance that is harmful to the health”. The problem is very serious as of today; the reason is the effect that they bear towards their health and towards their lungs in particular (Jackson, 2008, pp. 7-11).

The study focuses upon the idea that there is a direct relationship between smoking in the teens, as well as, the peer pressure. The study is primitively based upon the situation prevailing in the United Kingdom. The study looks into the details and dynamics of teen smoking, as well ...