Tobacco Use: African Americans The topic that I have chosen from Healthy People 2020 is tobacco. Tobacco is a drug substance that creates nicotine to be exhaust or to be grind. Tobacco is a craving substance for many people, especially the African- American culture. I am writing this paper to inform African Americans about how tobacco can affect their bodies by developing an educational health promotion project addressing how tobacco can lead to lung cancer, lung problems, and other ways it can affect the body. Description of Tobacco: African Americans The tobacco plant has a thick, hairy stem and large, simple leaves which are oval in shape, the tobacco plant produces white, cream, pink or red flowers which grow in large clusters,
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The project that I designed will help African Americans to quit smoking and turning their lives around. Healthy people 2020 is designed to inform readers how they improve health, collect data, and keep up with new research and findings every day. The project is about how African Americans are the second leading population to use tobacco. The statistics show that the African American population is high and needs to be decreased. My health promotion project will decrease the percentage of the tobacco use for African Americans. By decreasing the percentage, it will lower lung cancer, lung disease, breathing problems, and other …show more content…
The African American race is the leading race with second- hand smoke than any other race. The race wants to quit smoking, but it is hard due to cessation. Healthy people 2020, the article is about the rate of tobacco use has decreased from 2008 to 2012. The article shows that the African American race has a 17.8% of tobacco use, from the age of eighteen and older. The healthy people 2020 article shows the different risk factors for using tobacco. The tobacco description article gives a good description of what tobacco looks like, the location of growth, and give good pictures of what tobacco looks
The project that I designed will help African Americans to quit smoking and turning their lives around. Healthy people 2020 is designed to inform readers how they improve health, collect data, and keep up with new research and findings every day. The project is about how African Americans are the second leading population to use tobacco. The statistics show that the African American population is high and needs to be decreased. My health promotion project will decrease the percentage of the tobacco use for African Americans. By decreasing the percentage, it will lower lung cancer, lung disease, breathing problems, and other …show more content…
The African American race is the leading race with second- hand smoke than any other race. The race wants to quit smoking, but it is hard due to cessation. Healthy people 2020, the article is about the rate of tobacco use has decreased from 2008 to 2012. The article shows that the African American race has a 17.8% of tobacco use, from the age of eighteen and older. The healthy people 2020 article shows the different risk factors for using tobacco. The tobacco description article gives a good description of what tobacco looks like, the location of growth, and give good pictures of what tobacco looks