Getting Hooked Early

Everyday in America nearly 6,000 young people start down their tumultuous path of smoking cigarettes. Of the nearly 400,000 kids (Under 18) who become avid smokers this year alone, nearly 120,000 of them may eventually succumb to smoking related ailments and eventually die. Among these hundreds of thousands of teenagers yearly, a large percentage of them have body image issues, more specifically young girls with poor eating habits and diets. The pressure to be twiggy - the model and thin - forces many young girls to smoke whilst dieting. Smoking gives many dieting teens the illusion of having control over their eating habits, but what they lose control of is their health. It is these young people that may become the lung-cancer ridden fifty-something's in the next 40 years. It is important to instill better eating habits, no smoking and preventative care into these kids lives at an early age. With lung cancer the key is early detection. If these kids are quick to pick up habits, let's hope when they are 35 they pick up the habit of getting scanned yearly. Photolink