Young Adults and Cigarette Smoking

Smoking among young people and smokers is a major cause of lung cancer and many other diseases. In American society, at least one in five people died of illnesses directly related to smoking. Over the past two decades, the overall smoking rate in the United States sharply declined; however, the smoking rate between youth and young people declined only slightly. Among university students, tobacco usage is still about 35%.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate recent trends of youth smoking. (1) to review the published literature on smoking trends in young people in the past 20 years compared with college students and non-university students; (2) consider the hypothesis about why smoking dramatically increased in the latter half of the 1990's; (3) Discussion Main questions that deeply understand the tendencies of these concurrency and explanation on factors causing them; (4) Advice on tobacco control research and policy

In the past few decades, the number of emerging tobacco products used in these populations is lower than the number of emerging tobacco products used in these groups, although the number of traditional American smoking has decreased significantly among young people and young people (US Department of Health and Human Services 2012) , It has increased significantly. Recently (Disease Control and Prevention Center 2015, 2016). Amidst such growth, the use of electronic cigarettes (electronic cigarettes) by young people and young people is dramatically increasing (Figures 1, 2, 3). It is important that the decline in traditional smoking progress among adolescents and young people is not affected by the use and use of electronic cigarettes.

The use of menthol cigarettes is higher among young people than young people and adults. Between 2008 and 2010, 57% of smokers aged 12 to 17 smoked menthol's cigarettes, smokers sucked 35%. In the following year, this gap continued to expand. Researchers who investigated adolescent smokers who had smoked menthol cigarettes between 2012 and 2014 found a 4 percentage point increase from 2008 to 2010. Black smokers reported that smokers of all ages use menthol cigarettes most often and nearly 80% of black smokers are smoking menthol. Previous research showed that the tobacco industry is strongly aiming for hawk alcohol marketing for African Americans facing a big burden of tobacco related diseases.