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NAME: TEMITOPE ABAYOMI FADIYA PROGRAM: MPH COURSE: PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES Email: fadiya@hytti.uku.fi SMOKING AND ADOLESCENTS, SCALE OF THE PROBLEM! "Cigarette smoking is a behavior that is initiated primarily during the adolescent years"(1). Hence, smoking is a habit that takes some effort to break since "cigarettes are highly efficient nicotine delivery device and is as addictive as cocaine"(2) "Nicotine is a drug of addiction" (3) and therefore the smoker becomes chemically addicted to it and consequently drawn into both a physical and psychological partnership with cigarette and thus the more the person smokes the more difficult it is to quit! The WHO rightly defined addition as "a state, psychic and sometimes also physical, resulting in the interaction between a living organism and a drug, characterized by behavior and other responses that always include a compulsion to take the drug on a continuous or period basis in order to enhance its psychic effects, and sometimes to avoid the discomfort...

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