Smoking: The Impact on Youth and Anti-Smoking Program Success

This report examines the detrimental impact of smoking on youth, emphasizing the prevalence of smoking habits among young individuals, particularly those aged 14-20. It highlights the Australian government's initiatives, such as anti-smoking programs, aimed at curbing this habit. The report discusses the success of these programs in reducing smoking rates among students and youths, as demonstrated by studies and the subsequent decrease in smoking rates. It underscores the importance of such programs in raising awareness and encouraging behavioral change, ultimately advocating for their broader implementation to reach a wider audience and further reduce smoking prevalence. References from Lupton (2015) and Richardson et al. (2014) support the arguments made throughout the report.

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Smoking is one of the deadly habits that people have in their lives, leading them to fatal
disease such as cancer. The habit of smoking is found in the youths mostly at the age of 14-20
years, when they enter into the high school or colleges. This habit is prevalent all around the
world, as well as in Australia.
The Australian government has taken various initiatives in order to ensure that the youths
could be refrained from the habit of smoking (Lupton 2015). Australian quit smoking program is
one such initiative that is taken by the Australian government, in order to ensure that the people
into the habit of smoking could be helped to quit smoking. It has been observed that the smoking
rate is much lower in the students and youths who have undergone the anti-smoking program, as
compared ti the other youths and students (Richardson et al. 2014). Thus it has been seen that the
use and students who have undergone the anti smoking program of the Australian government I
will be more aware of the Deadly consequences that smoking has on youth. This highlights the
success of the anti smoking programmes undertaken by the Australian government. The youths
and students started spreading the awareness among their friends also (Richardson et al. 2014).
Thus, the rate of smoking in Australia among the students and youth declined rapidly marking
the success of the anti smoking programmes undertaken by the Australian government.
Finally it may be concluded that the rate of smoking in Australia has decreased after the
youth and the students have undergone the anti smoking program. Moreover, the smokers are
mainly the youth and the students who have not undergone this program. Thus, the Australian
government should spread this program even more across Australia such that this awareness
reaches each and every student and use to refrain them from smoking.

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References
Lupton, D., 2015. The pedagogy of disgust: the ethical, moral and political implications of using
disgust in public health campaigns. Critical Public Health, 25(1), pp.4-14.
Richardson, S., Langley, T., Szatkowski, L., Sims, M., Gilmore, A., McNeill, A. and Lewis, S.,
2014. How does the emotive content of televised anti-smoking mass media campaigns influence
monthly calls to the NHS Stop Smoking helpline in England?. Preventive medicine, 69, pp.43-
48.