Reference: Labi, Sharon. (2011, April 10). Teen smoking on the rise. Sunday Mail. Retrieved May 22, 2011, from lexisnexis.
Summary:
According to the article I understand that Australia is facing a big problem, which is that most of the children in Australia who are under age practice smoking cigarettes. They found many studies that support this idea. The first evidence, which was results from a report that the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) made is they found that there has been an increase every year of the children who smoke in Australia. Second evidence, both Australian secondary schools made a survey on alcohol and drugs as well as experts. All of them agree that this phenomenon, which is children underage starting smoking is a big problem for the community in Australia. However, the children also start smoking and using tobacco along with cigarettes, because of the bad situation that Australia went throuah in the past years after the war. Cigarettes were so cheap to be sold, along with the stress that they got. Beside that, kids are more affected by the new communication media that they reach; they do whatever it shows on the TV without thinking about the results. Also they follow their friends as it’s a cool thing to do. In conclusion, Thire are many ways that allow for the teenager to go and smoke. But on the other hand, the government is trying to stop selling this product of drugs, consequently according to the article smoking kills 15,000 Australians each year.
Reaction:
In this article the author mentions a problem, which has become a global problem that we have forgotten about or in other words we don’t care about it. The relationship between the teenager and the smoking is increasing every year. When I read this article I was shocked along with feelings of anger that because most of the teenagers or I can say the children are in danger, especially in Australia, as result of smoking. The author discussed this problem in this article. Actually, I agree with Olver about what he said, “ clearly, there’s enough promotion still to attract young people, if you made a movie about Winston Churchill you’d expect him to have a cigar but why does Sigourney Weaver smoke in Avatar? There’s still product placement in movies.” I guess that is what we are going through these days. Our kids these days are a good example of that. They copy everything from the movies and say that is a cool thing to do. They do things to be cool without knowing anything about the trouble that they are in. I imagine the reasons after that is they don’t have enough knowledge about it. If our children are in a hazardous situation, the problem is from all of us. We didn’t give our children the full information about the things that they have to avoid. I anticipate that the first piece of the puzzle starts with the government. The government is allowing smoking in Australia; even people who are under the age can buy cigarettes. The second piece of the puzzle is from the school and the parents. They have to represent the effects of smoking to children in simple ways to let them comprehend about the bad effects of smoking. If we just glance at the numbers of victims each year we will understand that smoking is a real global problem that the world is facing now. Therefore, we have to stop for a while and think about the results after 10 years; our children are in danger, we have to do something to depict for the teenager the image of how bad it is so as to be more clear for them. Australia trying to find a soulotion about this and they try it, which is putting cigarettes in verey simple packs. So, the atracte will be less insteade of the colores. This knowledge will enlighten me and encourage me to give my hand to the other teenager. As a consequence it will keep me going to reach my goal, which is to help the teenager.
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