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Today’s Adolescents Are Drinking and Smoking Less

September 13, 2016 By Joseph Decker Leave a Comment

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American adolescents drink and smoke less than their parents

American adolescents continue to move away from their parent’s habits

The Mental Health Services Administration And Substance Abuse showed in a recent report that American adolescent continued to move away from their parent’s habits. in 2017, drinking and smoking among teenagers reached a new low. Only 9.6 percent of teens aged 12 to 17 admitted using alcohol in 2017. In 2002, 17.6 percent of youngsters indicated using alcohol. Moreover, in 2017, 20 percent of teenagers declared smoking every day. In 2002, 32 percent of adolescents were daily smokers.

Kana Enomoto, the deputy manager of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, mentioned that the drop in numbers is due to public health efforts. Moreover, campaigns have been lead to remind teenagers at a young age that smoking is the number one cause of preventable death in America.

The study that revealed the recent rates involved 67,000 Americans and could imply that teenagers nowadays are healthier than the older generations.

Because a kid’s body is still developing, youth and teens are vulnerable to the cigarette’s deadly effects. Smoking by adolescents and children accelerates the onset of lung capacity deterioration during early adulthood and is associated with wheezing, damaged lung development, and chronic coughing.

Nicotine which most of the times is addictive for youngsters could also be used as a pesticide on crops.

Studies proved that 1,500 teenagers become smokers every day and as a result of being addicted, and one-third of the smokers will die prematurely.

The Environmental Protection Agency has decided that secondhand smoke induces lung cancer in grown-ups. It also considerably enhances the risk of unexpected infant death syndrome and of respiratory disease in children.

5,000 youngsters under the age of 21 die every year due to underage drinking. It includes about 1,900 deaths from car accidents, 300 from suicide, 1,600 from homicides. Underage drinking also causes other lesions such as falls, drownings, and burns.

It is believed that adolescents who move to young adulthood experience dramatic emotional, physical, and lifestyle modifications. Increasing independence and puberty have been linked to alcohol consumption. So, the findings prove that just experiencing adulthood could be considered a risk factor for drinking dangerously.

Moreover, most of the physiological and behavioral factors that lead to the decrease or increase in an individual’s risk for alcohol issues could be directly connected to genetics.

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