Sample Essay
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Direct Contributing Factor |
Indirect Contributing Factor |
| Family Smoker Influence | Members of the household openly smoke in front of the adolescents |
| Parents do not inform about the negative effects of smoking | |
| Smoking is encourages by family members | |
| Peer Smoking Influence | The need to belong in a group or the cool crowd by taking up smoking |
| Social and casual smoking prompted by environment and friends | |
| Encouragement of peers to smoke in their company | |
| Targeted Advertising | The glamorous appeal of the glossy magazine advertisements |
| The need to attain a certain image like a macho male or an independent females depicted in advertisements | |
| Enforced advertising by cigarette manufacturers and distributors which makes cigarettes easily accessible top the adolescents. | |
| Family Use of Substance | Members of the family openly smoke and do not condone smoking to adolescents |
| Parents not condoning guests or people visiting to not smoke in the house or in the premises | |
| Parents accepting the smoking habits of an elder sibling | |
| Peer/ Friends are Users | Everyone in the adolescents peer groups openly smokes |
| Friends and peers do not condone smoking | |
| Friends and peers encourage smoking and expect the adolescent to do so as well. | |
| Peer Pressure to Belong | An introvert adolescent forced by lack of friends to take up smoking in order to belong to a group of friends |
| Friends and peers encourage smoking in order to accept the adolescent in their social group | |
| Smoking used as condition by others to accept the adolescent in their social groups.
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