Smoking survey

1. Introduction

Do you ever smoke? Do your friends smoke? Do any members of your family smoke? Should we be allowed to smoke in public place? Should we increase the price of cigarettes? Today doctors know that smoking is very bad for your health. And it causes some of the most dangerous diseases, such as lung cancer and heart disease. They still don't understand that almost everybody knows about what smoking does to their bodies and they still smoke. This is serious problem in the society because they don't just affect themselves also; they affect the people who are around them.

Some of the researchers had found "staggering health risks of smoking; are women still lighting up? Today, 25.2 percent of women ages 18 to 24 and 27.8 percent of women ages 25 to 44 smoke--and these numbers are increasing. Dr. Larry Laufman, assistant professor at the Center for Cancer Control Research of Baylor College of Medicine, attributes the prevalence of young women who smoke to the recent rise in teen smokers".

"This increase in teen smoking is particularly worrisome because CDC studies have shown most people begin to smoke as teens. In fact, 82 percent of adults who smoke (or smoked in the past) had their first cigarette by the time they were 18, and more than half had become regular smokers by that time. Furthermore, people who have not tried cigarettes by the time they graduate from college are unlikely to ever start smoking,". according to Stefanie A. Doebler, "A Smoking Gun" (1999).

2. Purpose

Our group, S. Alugeel, G. Yoo, and I, decided to find out how smokers feel about smoking. And what did they think the best solution to make people quit smoking is? I wanted to examine the relationship between gender and when people start to smoking. Also, I wanted to know the different between ages when they want to quit smoking. Moreover, I wanted to know the relationship between gender and their feeling about smoking legalization in public places.

3. Hypotheses

I had three hypotheses about smoking. First, I thought that males would say they started to smoke earlier than females. Second, I thought that females would be more likely to say that they started to smoke due to peer pressure than males. Third, I thought that increasing the price of cigarette is the best solution to make males quit smoking but it will not work with females.

4. Methods and procedures

Our group asked thirty people who are different gender and age in Carbondale to get different opinions. In addition, we decided to ask smokers because we wanted to know how smokers thought about smoking. We collect the surveys in out of the student center were the smoker’s like to spend time there. We also, decide to ask only smokers. We prepared a survey that has teen questions. Those questions are short questions, so it was easy for respondents to answer the questions.

5. Data + chart

6. Results

Actually, when we ask people we find that males start to smoke cigarette earlier than females. We find that 4 out of 15 (26%) of males start to smoke in age 11-15. And 14 out of 15 (93%) of females started to smoke in age 16-19 and 10 out of 15 (66%) of males started to smoke in age 16-19. And 1 out of 15 (6.7%) of females started to smoke in age 20-24 and 1 out of 15 (6.7%) of males started at age 20-24. Also we fined that more females start to smoke due to peer pressure than males. We find that 14 out of 15 (93%) of females and 10 out of 15 (66%) started to smoke due to peer pressure. Moreover, we asked people to find out what they think the best solution to make them quit smoking is and we found that 10 out of 15 (66%) of males and 8 out of 15 (53%) think high price is the best solution. And the same result for males and females 3 out of 15 (20%) they think that makes smoking illegal in public places is the best solution. more over 4 out of 15 (26%) of females and 2 out of 15 (13%) of males think that make smoking illegal until age 24 is a good solution.

7. Conclusion and Discussion

I believed that males would say they started to smoke before females. It was true because our survey showed that. And Stefanie A. Doebler mentioned it in their research. I think that happened because males wanted to prove that they are men they are not children. Also, males thought that smoke, will make them cool and more attractive for females. Moreover, I believed that female would start to smoke due to peer pressure more than males. However, it was not true, because our survey showed that, males would start to smoke due to peer pressure more than females. I was shocked at that fact, because I thought that females would start to smoke due to peer pressure more than males. I think that happened, because boys don’t like to say no for their friends if they asked them to tried something, because they want to proved to there friends that they are men and the don’t scared. Another think I thought that increasing the price of cigarette is the best solution to make males quit smoking but it will not work with females. And our survey showed that is true. I think that happened, because males care about money more than females do, because they are more responsible than females. I think if I will do the survey again I will ask one more questions. I want to know how smoker felt if the government of the U.S. makes it illegal to smoke and sale cigarette.

8. Reference

Doebler, S.A, (1999, September) A Smoking Gun. American Fitness. FindArticles.com. Retrieved February 20, 2008, from
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0675/is_5_17/ai_57387244