US, nearly 9 out of 10 cigarette smokers first tried smoking by the age of 18. “It common for students as young as 13 year-old to smoke hukka or cigarette these days. They go out with their friends and try out cigarette to blend in the crowd and sometimes even get addicted to it.
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Young teenagers are often taught that smoking is injurious to health but the number of youngsters smoking just keeps rising instead. Although minors are not allowed to smoke or buy any tobacco products, it’s common to find young teenagers smoking and getting trapped in this vicious cycle.
Even though teenagers are taught that smoking is injurious to your health there are a whole bunch of factors that lead to smoking like stress or a genetic issue. There needs to be more than just being taught the consequences.
Although we teach students about negative consequences of smoking through heath science, it’s not effective otherwise we would be able to stop students from taking the first puff. Our education system needs be more practical,” said Bibek Bingyee, the principal of Jugal English Medium School.
This is a call to action. An idea to solve this issue.
Children usually spend much of their time watching movies and using internet where they can see their favorite celebrities smoking cigarettes and sometimes parents in Nepal also tend to send their children to buy cigarettes which can cause negative impact on a young child’s mind.
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He came down the road with cigarette in his hand. I waved at him; he smiled at me and threw away the almost finished cigarette inhaling the last puff. As we sat down to talk, he lit up another cigarette; with its smoke surrounding us he began his story. “I was 12 when I took a puff of my first cigarette. My brothers used to smoke a lot and asked me if I wanted to try, so I tried to just cool among them. I didn’t know that smoking was injurious to health back then, I know it’s bad for my health now but I don’t want to quit , I don’t think it’s doing me any harm like alcohol. I used to go far from my home to buy cigarettes and smoke. I got habituated after a year, first I wanted to look cool and now it’s like daily ritual of my life. I light up a cigarette as soon as I wake up and may be finish a packet per day,” said Luke* , who is now a 23 year -old man.
The writer gives us a quick little memory about an experience he has had with smoking in Nepal. It gives us somewhat of an incentive for this article.