Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults

 Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults

Youth are vulnerable to social and environmental influences to use tobacco; messages and images that make tobacco use appealing to them are everywhere.

• Young people want to fit in with their peers. Images in tobacco marketing make tobacco use look appealing to this age group.
• Youth and young adults see smoking in their social circles, movies they watch, video games they play, websites they visit, and many communities where they live. Smoking is often portrayed as a social norm, and young people exposed to these images are more likely to smoke.
• Youth identify with peers they see as social leaders and may imitate their behavior; those whose friends or siblings smoke are more likely to smoke.
• Youth who are exposed to images of smoking in movies are more likely to smoke. Those who get the most exposure to onscreen smoking are about twice as likely to begin smoking as those who get the least exposure

Source: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/reports/preventing-youth-tobacco-use/factsheet.html

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