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Society of the young generation is overwhelmed by traffic car problems, accidents due to over speeding, text and drunk driving, not to mention parents’ lash out of worry due to numerous car back seat hanky- panky being reported as quite population in the young ones. But these are not all the grave situations to where parents should be worried for their children’s lives. In fact, even they may be one of the contributors of disease to their own children’s health. It has been reported that there are increased cases of smoking sessions in cars while kids are actually in the vehicle. In fact, the government has scattered researchers to get estimates of such practicing population and was able to garner the result that more than one out of five high school students and middle school goers are riding in vehicles with passengers who smoke. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has focused in trying to kill such secondhand smoke source and help kids live a healthier environment. Below are CDC’s findings as well as teaching for parents to abide:

Secondhand smoke has been found to be one of the grave factors causing a huge exposure for people to be experiencing breathing problems and even cause them to experience allergic symptoms. People are definitely not far away from such form of smoking as this has been widely spread in public places and even within the privacy of one’s home. Basically, secondhand smoke is almost everywhere. Plus, research has shown that secondhand smoking in cars, small closed space, is far greater threat to a person’s life than those being inhaled from a smoke – filled bars and other confined areas.

The CDC’s study is actually based on the national surveys executed in both public and private high schools’ and middle schools’ students. The students were simply asked how often they experience being in a car with another person smoking in it within the past week. The students have raised the answer of one or two days. Despite such small exposure, CDC would like to establish the fact that even small amounts of secondhand smoke can be quite risky for the health of children. In fact, CDC clearly stated that with secondhand smoke, there is no such thing as a risk – free level of exposure. There are twenty two percent of teens and pre – teens who are exposed to such smoke in cars for the year 2009 alone. This is a declined from the forty percent that was taken from 2000 but is still a huge number of children being exposed to the health hazards of smoking and is truly a grave problem. Hence, CDC suggests that smoking should not be allowed in cars and that even rolling down the window while you smoke would not prevent your child from getting lung problems and other diseases.

Since such study has been broadcast, numerous states have taken action in banning smoking in cars, especially when children are present. However, CDC still campaigns that such action should be adopted by many to help protect the lives of the young population, who we believe are the great future of the human race.

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Ever wondered why your old man seems to rumble things about the past and would simply forget what you told him ten minutes ago? In the past you might answer that this is the annoying thing about old age. Signs of aging get to the nerves and patience tolerance of those who simply are just starting to leave their life. However, blaming aging for your old dad’s forgetfulness or clumsiness may not be the sole reason. If your old man is a chain smoker for the past decade or more, then you might want to pick a fight and blame other factor than smoking or so as a new study suggests.

It has been found out that cigarette smoking in men smokers causes high risk of faster cognitive decline compared to women smokers, those who quit the habit ten years ago and those who never had a single stick of cigarette in their life. This was introduced by Archives of General Psychiatry which is considered to be one of the great sources of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Ever since smoking has been introduced to

the public, despite the government and health industries’ warnings over its effect to your general health, it has been pointed out as one of the many factors in numerous, if not all, of the diseases known to man today.  As for dementia cases, the recent two year report shows that a huge wave of cases, worldwide, increased in elderly dementia to which smoking is recognized as a risk factor. In fact experts estimated that the 36 million cases in 2010 will rise and even double every twenty years.

The study has been executed by simply extracting data from 5, 099 men and 2, 137 women as the researchers simply examine the association between smoking history and the cognitive decline within the midlife to old age transition time span. The study has started by establishing the first cognitive assessment to the participants at the average age 56. Researchers, on the other end, have analyzed data using six assessments of the participants’ smoking status over 25 years and included three cognitive assessments over 10 years. Imagine the years it took to complete such study! Truly it did not end as a useless piece of junk as researchers have unfolded great findings.

The study has ended with results that truly smoking in the male population has caused more rapid cognitive decline compared to the women smokers’ population and those who simply do not smoke at all. Also, those men who continue to smoker right through the follow – up assessment showed even greater decline in all of the researchers’ cognitive tests. Those who quit smoking ten years after the first cognitive assessment are not off the hook as well. They still are at risk for greater cognitive decline especially in the field that requires complex cognitive processing in order to achieve a particular goal. Meanwhile, the long term, ten or more years, ex – smokers did not show faster rate of cognitive decline. In fact, their results were more akin to those who do not smoke at all. Lastly, the study does not show any association between smoking and cognitive decline in women. Researchers believe that such sex difference result may be attributed to their observance that men are more likely to consume high quantity of tobacco compared to women.

Truly smoking has affected the male population gravely and will continue to ruin their life big time compared to the few minutes of euphoric sensation they get from its nicotine content. If you don’t want to be like your old man, then start quitting the habit now and live a healthier and happier life for your sake and for your children’s.

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There is a theory that the smoking scenes in movies are the influence for teens to start smoking. Being cool is what they say but do you think that smoking scenes should be banned in movies?

We all know teens love to watch movies and whether they will smoke or not after watching movies with smoking scenes, we will never be sure. Of course, we hope that the teens have better common sense when it comes to smoking. However, most teens get carried away with their emotions, which is why it is difficult to control them.

However, it would not harm if we can get rid of smoking scenes in a movie. We can always enjoy movies without smoking scenes but perhaps the movie industry will have a different song to sing.

In some countries, smoking scenes are banned from commercials. Other countries have banned cigarettes commercials but none of the countries have banned smoking scenes from the movies.

Perhaps we can teach the youngsters about the effects of smoking so that they get a head start knowing that smoking is bad for health. In this way, when they have grown older, they have a higher chance to stay away from cigarettes.

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