Problem solution essay about preventing and stopping teen smoking.

1. Teen Smoking
Teen smoking is on the rise and more and more teens are smoking now than ever. Teen smoking
affects everyone, not just the teens that do it. If teens don't stop smoking, they could get cancer and die.
That could affect a whole entire generation. Also, secondhand smoke could be a problem too. A couple
solutions to this problem are to stop the media promoting smoking and to educate teens about smoking
and how it's bad for you.
The public image of smoking is making teens think it is cool to smoke. Part of making the
public image of smoking better is to ban the ads on billboards, and in magazines or anything else that
advertises smoking. The teens see those ads and see the people with lots of luxuries like money and
friends in the ads and think that if they smoke, the will get those things. If they stop those ads, teens
will not think that smoking will help their self image. Another solution would be to stop apparel that
promotes smoking. The teens see people wearing those shirts and hats and things and they think that
they'll be mature and respected if they start smoking. If you stop the promotion of smoking on apparel,
then they won't see it as something cool. Finally, the actors smoking on TV and in movies make
smoking look good. If the action heroes and actors stop smoking, then when kids look up to them they
won't want to smoke. That way it won't seem like smoking is fine to do. If we stop the media
promoting smoking. Not as many people will do it.
One more solution is to educate teens about smoking. One way of doing that is to get
motivational speakers to talk to students. They will teach them that smoking is not cool and you don't
have don't have to smoke to fit in. They'll also teach that smoking can give you diseases and possibly
kill you. You can also start an ad campaign against smoking. It can be ab good form of advertising
instead of a bad kind. They can say to stop smoking before it is too late and you get a disease. Last but
not least, you can have meetings with parents and kids. You can tell them not to let their kids smoke
and to educate them as well. It's teaching the parents and the kids about smoking at the same time.
Those are many ways to educate everyone about the harmful effects of smoking.
I think that out of the two solutions offered, stopping the media promotion of smoking is the
best one. I think that most of the teens would just ignore the speakers and ads and still smoke. TV,
clothes, and ads have more effect on teens than speakers do. And if stopping the ads and TV doesn't
stop the smokers now, then since the next generation was never exposed to it, they won't know it as a
cool thing. It has better long term effects than education does. Also, stopping bad ads would be a lot
easier then thinking up new good ones. Most of the kids that smoke know it's bad and do it just for their
self image. So if you teach them things they already know, it serves no purpose. Most of the things like
hiring people, and getting ads is expensive, while banning things doesn't cost much. All in all, I think
changing the way the media promotes smoking is a very good solution.
Now you know of the dire problem of teen smoking and ways we can fix it. There are many
smoking teens out there that, even if they don't know it, need your help. If you don't help them they
could get very sick and possibly die. So go out and help the fight against teen smoking.
By Parker Hunt