EDHS Contemporary World Affairs

MrsCavalluzzi · Guru

Only YOU can prevent lung cancer...

LauraHernandez17 · Senior Member

nothing.. almost everyone knows that smoking will most definately kill you.
teenagers do it to feel cool or older but what happens is they start to be cool and then they get totally addicted and that sucks. but i think it mostly comes from the parenting if your parent smokes or doesnt care if you do then that might provoke a teen to do it.

krea · Senior Member

no teens still dont take it seriously enough. i lecture my friends who do smoke so much im probably very annoying. it is the most pointless thing to do that gets you that much closer to death and cancer. maybe if their parents like scared them out of it by taking them to a doctor and having him/her fake a tumor in a xray lol seriously it drives me crazy. we even had that speaker come with the hole in her throat and that didnt even make them stop

id also like to add how older generations are addicted because when they were young and started smoking the dangers werent clear and they didnt know it was deadly. but now that kids still do it is ridiculous and just makes them look ignorant.

-- Edited by krea at 18:56, 2009-01-09

Zach_V · Senior Member

Not much can be done to discourage smoking. All the facts are out there and it's just up to the individual. As long as there are cigarettes out there, there are going to be smokers.

drewtekulve · Senior Member

Or if the parent is way too strict, and the rebellious tiger inside the teen growls out, rebels, greases back his hair, and whips out an unfiltered cigarette.

KSF{Kodies} · Senior Member

i dunno what more can be done. I, at what ive gone through at school, have seen countless things describing the afftect that it can have on you. It more of a parenting thing or social outlash when teens smoke.

cstair23 · Senior Member

i think if you smoke
you get what you deserve
simple.

krea · Senior Member

usually their reason is its only "social smoking" and their not addicted. what can be done to stop that? nothing im sure
(except my mean xray idea)

LauraHernandez17 · Senior Member

cstair23 wrote:

i think if you smoke
you get what you deserve
simple.

sick burn

Flanny · Senior Member

i am a ferm believer in everything in moderation, but its hard to take something so addicting in moderation. Its not only that smoking is considered "cool" but also many societys and cultures have smoked for centuries, however with the new chemicals that we now put into cigarettes it is just worsening our health. I don't think there should be anything done to prevent or discourage teen smoking, if teenagers want to be 'cool' and 'fit in' by smoking and worsening their health, then so be it. I don't think anything will be done by the cigarette comapnys anyways because of the large teenage consumers.

rtheisen · Senior Member

I think the government really needs to limit where people can smoke. Only in their cars and at home. They shouldn't be allowed to smoke anywhere in public, it's a public safety hazard. It they did this, and forced kids(even though they would still do it in public, because they're rebels, because they're cool) to smoke in places that are lees 'cool', that may help, but not a whole lot. Then they could get busted for smoking out in public, and that may turn the trend around.

Zach_V · Senior Member

krea wrote:

usually their reason is its only "social smoking" and their not addicted. what can be done to stop that? nothing im sure
(except my mean xray idea)

And what is your "mean xray idea"?

krea · Senior Member

Zach_V wrote:

krea wrote:

usually their reason is its only "social smoking" and their not addicted. what can be done to stop that? nothing im sure
(except my mean xray idea)

And what is your "mean xray idea"?

its in my first post. where the parents take their cig smoking kid to the doctor for some xrays and the doctor can fake a tumor to scare the kid out of smoking. it was joke and an extremely mean idea

LauraHernandez17 · Senior Member

uhh smoke these?

-- Edited by LauraHernandez17 at 19:01, 2009-01-09

drewtekulve · Senior Member

what about the smoking-only places at Disneyland?

I don't mind them really, but it does smell. It's private property made for public use. But do you think they could ban the smoking?

alliestoom · Senior Member

go laura! good job on the html

i don't care about smoking and anyone that wants to do it
go ahead! you know the consequences

-- Edited by MrsCavalluzzi at 19:01, 2009-01-09

rtheisen · Senior Member

drewtekulve wrote:

what about the smoking-only places at Disneyland?

I don't mind them really, but it does smell. It's private property made for public use. But do you think they could ban the smoking?

i say get rid of them. I have a right to breathe fresh air

Flanny · Senior Member

LauraHernandez17 wrote:

uhh smoke these?

-- Edited by LauraHernandez17 at 19:01, 2009-01-09

Is that indian smoking a peace pipe? If so then it must be ok.

LauraHernandez17 · Senior Member

smoking is bad but even if allie said go smoke or no dont smoke the people who wanna smoke will
so whatever.
im sorry allie but you do not affect that many people choices whether they are bad ones or not haha :)

alliestoom · Senior Member

LauraHernandez17 wrote:

smoking is bad but even if allie said go smoke or no dont smoke the people who wanna smoke will
so whatever.
im sorry allie but you do not affect that many people choices whether they are bad ones or not haha :)

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Zach_V · Senior Member

krea wrote:

Zach_V wrote:

krea wrote:

usually their reason is its only "social smoking" and their not addicted. what can be done to stop that? nothing im sure
(except my mean xray idea)

And what is your "mean xray idea"?

its in my first post. where the parents take their cig smoking kid to the doctor for some xrays and the doctor can fake a tumor to scare the kid out of smoking. it was joke and an extremely mean idea

That might work for some kids. But I could also see the doctors getting in trouble for something like that.

rtheisen · Senior Member

krea wrote:

Zach_V wrote:

krea wrote:

usually their reason is its only "social smoking" and their not addicted. what can be done to stop that? nothing im sure
(except my mean xray idea)

And what is your "mean xray idea"?

its in my first post. where the parents take their cig smoking kid to the doctor for some xrays and the doctor can fake a tumor to scare the kid out of smoking. it was joke and an extremely mean idea

kind of like an "every 15 minutes" thing? Most EDHS students still drink...

krea · Senior Member

rtheisen wrote:

krea wrote:

Zach_V wrote:

krea wrote:

usually their reason is its only "social smoking" and their not addicted. what can be done to stop that? nothing im sure
(except my mean xray idea)

And what is your "mean xray idea"?

its in my first post. where the parents take their cig smoking kid to the doctor for some xrays and the doctor can fake a tumor to scare the kid out of smoking. it was joke and an extremely mean idea

kind of like an "every 15 minutes" thing? Most EDHS students still drink...

sad to say i know a couple people who have gotten a dui and they will never drink and drive again. its a great lesson once they reap the consequences

rtheisen · Senior Member

krea wrote:

rtheisen wrote:

krea wrote:

Zach_V wrote:

krea wrote:

usually their reason is its only "social smoking" and their not addicted. what can be done to stop that? nothing im sure
(except my mean xray idea)

And what is your "mean xray idea"?

its in my first post. where the parents take their cig smoking kid to the doctor for some xrays and the doctor can fake a tumor to scare the kid out of smoking. it was joke and an extremely mean idea

kind of like an "every 15 minutes" thing? Most EDHS students still drink...

sad to say i know a couple people who have gotten a dui and they will never drink and drive again. its a great lesson once they reap the consequences

well thats good to hear. But it only takes one time to ruin someone's life. I hope they do keep their word.

But what if after they got so scared, they went outside to have a smoke afterwards. That would be pretty ironic...