Daddy’s Little Girl:

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Term Paper Title	Daddy’s Little Girl:
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Daddy’s Little Girl:
Torchbearer For Tobacco
Study of Smoking Behavior:
Predisposition, Prediction, and Consequences

Abstract: The abatement of tobacco use was promising in the 70s and 80s. Teenagers were engaging in smoking in ever increasing less numbers. The 90’s came upon with numbers of adolescent users that increased as the years progressed. A record number demographic group has appeared through the smoke. An explosion of adolescent girls are accounting for this decade’s resurgence of tobacco’s prominence in the youth culture and white girls are leading the way. This paper studies the ways smoking behavior is acquired using human development theory perspectives. Who is predisposed to smoking and predicting potential behavior is argued. Consequences to mortality and morbidity to the adolescent and her offspring are empirically and theoretically explored and discussed. A major problem of a study such as this is the extremely long time delay between inoculation of the cause and the results of its effect. Empirical evidence is weighed against some common sense and medical speculation.

Introduction

We entered the 90s with an abatement of teenage smoking it was on the decline. We are now going into the new millennium with records high of teenage smoking. Leading the parade of the new and growing smokers are adolescent girls. They have now caught up with boys in many aspects of high-risk behavior. In the area of smoking they may even exceed the boys in terms of use.
According to recent American Cancer data (revised 1-6-99) 1.5 million is a conservative estimate of adolescent girls presently engaging in a significant smoking habit and this number is growing. Medical information has been substantially documented to show the adverse health effects of tobacco use in increases in the risk and development of cancer, heart and respiratory diseases, and reproductive disorders.
The cohort demographics are changing. What was once though to be an economical correlation of the poor, smoking numbers have significantly grown among the white middle class and up groups. There also have been significant increases in the black teen population, which formerly exhibited low numbers of tobacco users.
The purpose of this paper is to examine how girls acquire this behavior in terms of human development theory, predictors of likely cohort groups, what conditions predispose an adolescent girl to smoke, and the unique implications or consequences to their morbidity and mortalit...

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