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Teenage Girls and Smoking

It is during the teenage that many boys take to smoking, but today we find many teenage girls actively taking to smoking. These teenage blondes, who regularly smoke, believe that cigarette smoking can help keeping them slim and on the same make them look grown-up and also it controls their stress. It is not that they are not aware of the health risk it can cause in future, but they simply ignore it.

The habit of smoking is on an increase and many older women are also falling a prey to this menace. One in five girls of high school is a smoker. It is being felt that the anti-smoking message is not reaching them, rather the teenage girls are more vulnerable to smoking, a habit which is hard to give up.

It is also that when any member of the family is a smoker like parents or an uncle the girls are likely to take to it just out of curiosity. They also want to catch the attention of the opposite sex and want to show off in their group.

Women taking to cigarette smoking early in their life are more prone to breast cancer. They may have few or no children at all. Their first full term pregnancy may be at a very late stage of their life.

Cancer risk of breast can be prevented if cigarette smoking is quitted. Women have a slow-acting form of a liver enzyme that normally detoxifies carcinogens. Because these women's "detox" enzymes act more slowly than the enzymes of other women, the carcinogens in tobacco last longer in their bodies, allowing the substances more time to cause cancer. For such women, every cigarette loads the dice in favor of breast cancer.

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It is really a matter of concern Dhawanbm

It is a fall to our culture.But I think this culture fall can not be stopped.This will increase in future.

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Hi Vijay,
Why do you think only women have to be custodians of culture? That's not fair. What is more relevant, as has also been pointed out in the article, women's bodies are less tolerant of tobacco/drugs. Plus, regardless of who does the household job ( which I always believe has to be shared equally), it is women who have to bear children and feed them. Yes, to that extent they have more responsibilities towards the next gen. But then a smoking father can cause as much harm to the children as a smoking mother. Children will be passive inhalers regardless of this battle of the sexes. You sing odes to mothers and expect them to be solely and singly responsible? Save yourself from angry women. At least I will be one of them
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first let me thank you

for the comment.Please do remember I always respect women for their high morals.As regards to smoking women have to be more careful as they have the responsibility of producing healthy children for the future.In a school you find a teacher is worried when a bright student begins to get low marks.It is true that men should also live with clean habits.

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Hi, Knowing you within a

Hi,
Knowing you within a reasonable amount of time through this site, I know about your respect for women. You needn't have taken the trouble to explain; it was meant to be a teaser, not to be taken so personally.

I was referring in a very light hearted way to the general attitude to women. It's so easy to paint them as goddesses and have high expectations of them.

I wanted girls' reaction to this, not Vijayanth's self defence. Come on girls, have your say!!!

You may find this blog as appropriate to the discussion.
http://blogs.4indianwoman.com/2008/01/11/its-all-in-the-mind-by-uma-shan...

yes vijayanth teenage girls and smoking is a serious issue

and needs to be taken seriously by the society and parents alike.
When cultures and traditions fall apart there is only havoc which prevails!

thanx!

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