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Teenagers and children shouldn't smoke because it represents a risk to their health. Young people who smoke tobacco have high heartbeats, they have a low tolerance for exercise, and an increase risk of damaging arteries from fatty buildups associated with heart disease. Young smokers suffer the same symptoms of nicotine withdrawal as long-time adult smokers. Seventy percent of teenagers who smoke regret they started. It has been tested by the U.S. Army that young men who smoke are more susceptible to get injured than the trainees who don't smoke. This study also found that trainees who smoked were more likely to get blisters on their feet when they marched one hundred miles, carrying eighty pound packs. More teens are using drugs. The percent of teenagers who use drugs like marijuana, cocaine, uppers, hallucinogens and cigarettes increased significantly in the last year. When healthcare professionals have the chance to tell their patients about the hazards and addictiveness of tobacco and other drugs, they miss the opportunity and don't talk about it strongly enough to make the
Study tracks a large increase in smoking among youth. Nearly nine percent of eighth graders said they smoked daily. Fifty-six percent of high school students who smoke at least half a pack a day had tried to quit. They said that now they realize how addictive it is. According by a study release by the National Center of Health Statistics say that youth is engaging in risk-taking behavior that can lead to a chronic disease, injury, and even death. While young males and females have equal opportunities to experiment tobacco, alcohol or illegal drugs, it has been said that men do it more frequently and at a higher dose. More than half of the youth had smoked an entire cigarette at least once, while another ten percent have taken a few puffs. Males eighteen to twenty-one were more likely than a female to be a current smoker. Fourteen percent of male smokers age eighteen to twenty-one and eight percent of females smokers the same age, say they smoked by the age of ten. A survey of 3,112 children in grades second to sixth found that eleven percent of six graders had smoked a cigarette at least once
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