In high school there was always something out of the norm. One day I go into my health class thinking that it was going to be like any other day. Little did I know that our health teacher was going to go on a rant of the high school’s bad reputation of tobacco abuse? I’m not going to lie; it wasn’t a huge eye opener. If anything, the students took pride in it. At the time I was neutral, until my younger brother got caught smoking. My parents where devastated and I started to develop a repugnance towards it. For short while one of the counselors announced stop smoking session after school, I think he was on the right track. Brian R. Flay article “School-based smoking prevention programs with the promise of long-term effects”(Flay) for the BioMed
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Flay research shows the long-term effects of school smoking prevention programs and which of the programs have the longest effect. Flay studies seven different school programs. Some are school only and others being school and community. There are seven programs with fifteen and more sessions that have the highest effect, with some of these sessions starting clear back in elementary school and ending in high school. Between both school only and school plus community; school plus community have the larger effect. Brian R. Flay goes to talk about cost of these programs. He mentions an analysis that was conducted in Washington. They studied seventy different prevention programs and the average cost per student. The outcome is that there is a larger benefit than loss money wise, because health cost is lower for non-smokers. Brian R. Flay ends his articles feeling confident that he has proven that there are benefits to smoking prevention program and schools should only invest in research proven programs. Fray writes compelling argument on why the longer the program the better and the larger benefit with the less of adolescent smoking, but his manner of writing comes off salesman like, thankfully he provides plenty of research to prove to back up his
Flay research shows the long-term effects of school smoking prevention programs and which of the programs have the longest effect. Flay studies seven different school programs. Some are school only and others being school and community. There are seven programs with fifteen and more sessions that have the highest effect, with some of these sessions starting clear back in elementary school and ending in high school. Between both school only and school plus community; school plus community have the larger effect. Brian R. Flay goes to talk about cost of these programs. He mentions an analysis that was conducted in Washington. They studied seventy different prevention programs and the average cost per student. The outcome is that there is a larger benefit than loss money wise, because health cost is lower for non-smokers. Brian R. Flay ends his articles feeling confident that he has proven that there are benefits to smoking prevention program and schools should only invest in research proven programs. Fray writes compelling argument on why the longer the program the better and the larger benefit with the less of adolescent smoking, but his manner of writing comes off salesman like, thankfully he provides plenty of research to prove to back up his