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Question: A recent survey has indicated that the number of junior secondary students who smoke has been soaring over the past few years. Write an article entitled ‘Teenage Smoking’ for your school magazine explaining why more and more teenagers smoke nowadays and suggesting ways to reduce teenage smoking.
Teenage Smoking
Walking through the street, you may find a kid who is in school uniform and apparently under fifthteen smoking like an old hand. Weird as it seems, this scene is becoming more common in our society. One cannot deny that the problem of teenage smoking is deteriorating, which was also proven by a recent survey. To study the issue of teenage smoking, I,being the same generation and familiar with the situations, would like to suggest the underlying reasons of teenage smoking and throw out some ideas tackling the horrific issue.
Different kinds of pressures, no doubt, are the major reason of teenage smoking. Nowadays, students are facing enormous pressures coming from several sources. Parents, demanding great academic achievement of their children, are obviously the major one. Pushing them to different tutorial classes, preparing thousands of exercise for them, have already freaked out our youth. Coupled with other pressures originated from peers and from relationship problems with other sexes, make the situation even worse. Some adolescents have no choice but to resort to smoking to relieve their pressure. Once one in a friend circle starts smoking, others may follow suit due to peer’s pressure, which makes the problem more severe.
The best way to alleviate the problem is through proper counseling. Schools should provide appropriate lessons to guide their students to relieve pressure in a more healthy fashion. Enough manpower like social workers should also be put in place to detect emotions of the teens, so that we can adopt immediate approaches to help and they won’t rely on smoking. Parents definitely play a role in solving the problem, they should communicate with their children more and understand their real needs. Only by a concerted effort by all parties can the problem be tackled.
Besides pressures, easier access to cigarette also increases the number of teenagers who smoke. Household income is generally increasing in recent years. Parents who do not have time to spare with their kids are willing to give more pocket money to their kids as a compensation. Moreover, even though the government has announced the harsher tax for cigarette, the smuggling of cigarette makes the price rather stable or even lower. All these economic factors have altogether contributed to the rising trend of teenager smoking.
Our government, thus, plays an important role in this regard. It should pay an extra effort in the clamp down on cross-border smuggling. In the meantime, the enforcement against selling illegal cigarette should be enhanced, with severer penalty put in place. On the other hand, the government should strengthen the education of cigarette seller not to vend any cigarette to those under eighteen. If the accessibility of cigarette for teenager is lower, their incentives to smoke would also be lower.
Smoking is by no means a healthy habit, both physically and psychologically. To safeguard our innocent teenage, extra work should be done. If the government, schools and parents all turn a blind eye on this issue, the problem would just be deteriorating and we would see the weird scenes more often.