Essay On Tobacco Disparities

Disparities in tobacco use and smoking cessation by race, ethnicity, education, income, and mental health status remain high despite recent successes in trying to reducing tobacco use. There are many interventions that might be reflected as major strategies for reducing lung-specific cancer risks including smoking prevention and cessation, lifestyle, health dietary or nutritional changes, effective screening of identified high-risk individuals just to mention a few. Of these strategies, smoking prevention and cessation has been shown to reduce lung cancer risk (Dragnev, K. H., Stover, D., & Dmitrovsky, E. (2003). Lung cancer prevention: the guidelines. CHEST Journal, 123(1_suppl), 60S-71S). Different ways to prevent cancer are being planned which include …show more content…
Training early might be able to help educate students against influences encouraging them to experiment with smoking, or social skills training practice could help them repel against inducements from peers to smoke. Warning labels on packets and plain packaging, increasing prices cigarettes to prevent initiation, limiting ads about smoking, mass media in tobacco control programmes, encouraging smoke-free policies by limiting access to cigarettes by minors will be other approaches to adopt (Pierce, J. P., White, V. M., & Emery, S. L. (2012). What public health strategies are needed to reduce smoking initiation. Tobacco control, 21(2), 258-264). Public health campaigns have increased the public’s awareness and understanding in some areas explaining the dangerous health effects of both active and passive smoking. As a result, people’s attitudes towards smoking are less tolerant, and there has been an increase in motivation and education for smokers to quit (Galanti, L. M. (2008). Tobacco smoking cessation management: integrating varenicline in current practice. Vascular health and risk management, 4(4),