ELA Session one part B ( Text and Graph)

The rate teenage smoking has increased throughout the past years in America. Some researchers say that the rate of teenage smoking declined in the 1970's and leveled off in the 1980's. The stable and unstableness of the smoking rate has caused a health issue in the country and public relations with the tobacco company. The factors that have influenced teenage smoking include but are not limited to, are Tobacco Company, opponents of the company and the teenagers.

The most important factor that has influenced teenage smoking is the Tobacco Company. Many people debate over the idea that the rise in the rate of teenage smoking resulted from the harmful products, produced by the tobacco company. However, the tobacco company disagrees. Instead, they say that the main cause of the "rise" in the rate was due to "broad range of social forces." The company claims that due to increasing rates, Tobacco is not the only drug that has increased in rate among teenagers. They said that there are other riskful drugs that have increased in rate among them.

Another factor, which stands as an influence for the “rise in the teenage smoking rate”, is the critics. The critics at one point actually agreed with the tobacco industry, about the rebelliousness at work. On the other hand, the critics think that the tobacco industry is a main cause for the increase in the teenage smoking rate. The critics say that the industry spends a lot on advertising and promotions that are highly encouraged for run sale. According to graph 2, the percentage of teenagers smoking tobacco has increased sharply in the 1990's. Many teens are attracted to the advertisements coming from the tobacco industry. There is one critic who looks at this situation in a different way. His name is John Pierce. Pierce states that the spending has rose most swiftly in the 1980's. He thinks that the spending has mostly increased then the selling.

The factor that has strongly influenced teenage smoking is the teenagers themselves. Many teens are influenced to smoking tobacco hanging around with other teens who already smoke. Many high school students say that they mainly smoke because they like engage in risky behaviors. Other teens do it because others do it. The average numbers of teens start smoking, in 8th grade. Graph one indicates the number of packs high school students smoke per day. According to graph 1, 8th, 10th and 12th graders smoke at least half a pack of cigarettes everyday. The graph states that the biggest increase in the 3 grades was mainly in 1995 to 1996. The highest percentage is for the 12th graders. Many teens start smoking from being, well attracted to ads and advertisements from such companies like the tobacco industry.

In conclusion, the smoking rate of young teenagers should decrease. There are many ways of reducing the smoking rate. The tobacco industry should step selling harmful products like this to teens. A law should be made, of only selling products to a certain age. I think that drugs like tobacco shouldn't even be sold to young youths and to other people.