Survey

GilJae Yeo
EAP1 A
Survey

Smoking Survey

1. Introduction
Do you smoke? Have you smoked cigarette under 18 years old? How often do you smoking? What is your opinion? Today scientists know that smoking is not good for your health. It causes serious disease such as lung cancer and laryngitis. Now so many teenagers and adults have smoke cigarette. In “New Dangers of Secondhand Smoke” the author claims that “Researchers have known that secondhand smoke can be just as dangerous for nonsmokers as smoking is for smokers, but now there’s fresh evidence quantifying just how hazardous the after burn from cigarette can be, and how quickly it affects your body.” (2007, p. 1). Also, secondhand smoke causes lung cancer, heart disease, and respiratory ailments. It means when you near to smokers that they have a health problems. However, many people want to quit smoking because they know smoking affects to serious health problems but they could not quit smoking. Because cigarette have tar and nicotine. Nicotine is a drug, an extremely harmful and addictive drug.

2. Purpose
Our group, Dhay, Suliman, and I, decided to find out how smokers think about smoking when they are under 21. I wanted to know who start first men or women. And, I wanted to know what American think the best solution to decrease smoke. Also, I wanted to know how many people try to quit smoking.

3. Hypotheses
I had three hypotheses about smoking. First, I think that males would say they started smoking earlier than females. Next, I think that American teenagers start to smoking at 16 to 19 years old. Third, I think that American teenagers learned about smoking mostly from friends.

4. Methods and Procedures
Our group asked thirty people who are different gender and age in Carbondale to find out different idea. In addition, we decided to ask smokers, because we wanted to know how smokers think about smoking when they are under 21. We prepared a survey (see Appendix 1) that has ten questions. Those questions were mostly choosing the questions, so it was easy for respondents to answer the questions.

5.Data + Chart


6. Results
Actually, males said they began to smoke cigarette sooner than females. Twenty-four out of thirty (80%) SIUC students start smoking. 76.6% students learned about smoking mostly from their friends. Some students learned about smoking from parents in the survey result. The students (60%) think that the best solution to make people quit is high price. The students almost similar answered about if they increase the price of cigarette, it will make smoke less. The last result was about have you ever quit smoking, but students (40%) did not try to quit smoking.
7. Conclusion and Discussion
I believed that men would say they started to smoke cigarette earlier than women. It is true because our survey showed that a number of males started to smoke cigarette earlier than females, before 16 years old. I was surprised that 93.3% students who were 11 years old to 19 years old answered that they had started smoking. Also, I was surprised that 40% students have not quit smoking.
However, it was not surprising to me that 76.6% of people learned smoking from their friends because i was learned smoking from my friends and i think so many people learned smoking form their friends. While i expected that both men and women answer that almost people quit smoking under 4 months.
If I could do this survey another time, I would like to ask old people, because many people do not stop to smoke cigarette. I want to write “Why you don’t stop smoking?” as one of questions, because many people know about smoking make a serious health problem, but they do not do that. Therefore, next time I would like to ask this question.

8. Reference
New Dangers of Secondhand smoke. (2007, Jun. 28). time. Retrieved Feb. 28, 2008 from http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1638535,00.html

9. Appendix
Copy of Survey

10. Appendix 2
Copy of sheet1