New research shows that teenagers are not taking the warnings on the harmful effects of smoking cigars in their health seriously. Scientists are suggesting to enhance the approach of teaching teenagers these days the dangers of smoking cigars.
In an article shared by WebMD, Dr. Adam Goldstein, one of the lead scientists for this research, said that teens are not exactly getting the right information about the harms of smoking cigars. Goldstein, a professor at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, added that there are still people who think that smoking fewer cigars could lower the risk of getting sick from it. Contrary to popular belief, even just a single cigar a day could already cause possible deadly diseases like lung cancer and cardiovascular problems.
For this particular study, Goldstein and his team got all their data from a phone survey of over 1,100 teenagers in America who are 13 to 17 years old. They gave them three kinds of labels with different warnings. One says cigars could result in cancers of the mouth and throat without the need to inhale it. The second one says, cigars could result in having lung and heart disease. The last one says, cigars are still bad for the health and therefore not a suitable replacement for cigarettes.
My Fox Zone stated that about 53 percent of those teens believed that cigar could result in having mouth and throat cancer without even inhaling it. Three out of four of them believed that smoking it could lead to lung cancer and cardiovascular diseases and only half agreed that cigars are not good for the health.
All these just shows that there are a lot of teens who still think a cigar is good and even better to use than cigarettes when the truth is completely the opposite of it. Parents and health teachers must indeed do something to convince teenagers that cigars are no better than cigarettes, as it would still cause them some deadly diseases.
