Diversity within ethnic groups: alcohol and tobacco consumption by young people in the East Midlands

2000 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 340-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martyn Denscombe ◽  
Nicky Drucquer
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Tobacco Consumption ◽  
East Midlands

scholarly journals Main drivers of tobacco consumption among adolescents: the case of Kyrgyzstan

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-39
Author(s):  
Zamira Oskonbaeva
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Smoking Status ◽  
Smoking Habit ◽  
Tobacco Consumption ◽  
Heckman Selection Model ◽  
Global Youth Tobacco Survey ◽  
School Based ◽  
Global Concern ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Heckman Selection

Tobacco smoking among youth is a global concern. Tobacco's dangers and the probability of addiction are often underestimated by young people. Preventing tobacco consumption among youth is critical since tobacco-related illnesses will take away the lives of 250 million young people who continue to smoke into adulthood. Youth are more vulnerable to nicotine and may become addicted to it quicker than adults. Even though they decide to stop in a few years, three out of four teen smokers continue to smoke into adulthood due to nicotine addiction. The main purpose of this study is to investigate tobacco consumption of adolescents in Kyrgyzstan. For this aim, a school-based survey of students aged 13-15 years was utilized. Global Youth Tobacco Survey was conducted in 2019. The questionnaire consists of 56 questions. This survey was conducted in order to get knowledge about adolescents’ attitudes about smoking. In the empirical analysis was employed Heckman selection model. In the light of obtained results it can be concluded that the main drivers of tobacco consumption among adolescents are age, gender, amount of spending money, parental smoking status, among others. The results indicate that tobacco consumption is higher among males. Parents smoking habit leads to a higher probability of an adolescents to become a smoker. The outcomes from this study may provide some insights into the policies implemented to lessen smoking among adolescents.

Race Issues and Stop and Search: Looking behind the Statistics

2009 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiron Reid
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Racial Disparity ◽  
Official Statistics ◽  
Ongoing Controversy ◽  
Police Powers ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Stop And Search

This article considers the ongoing controversy over police powers to stop and search. It particularly looks at the evidence of racial disparity in use of these powers from the official statistics. The article considers attempts to improve use of stop and search by the police, including extra safeguards introduced after the Macpherson Report and the reduction of recording requirements after the Flanagan Report. It considers the argued fall in police use of stop and search after Macpherson and increase in use of general and anti-terrorist stop and search powers after 9/11 and 7/7. Police arguments to justify differential use between ethnic groups are considered. While concentrating on the developments since the late 1990s, the continuing nature of the debate about police use of powers in the last few decades is highlighted. The article considers the great concern about knife crime in recent years and government and police policies to deal with this. The analysis focuses on the potential impact on young people.

scholarly journals The Use of Malaysian English in the Work of Lloyd Fernando

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Murooj Fareed Majeed
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Green Is ◽  
Local Language ◽  
English Novel

The ongoing paper aims to study the use of Malaysian English lexis in creative writing by Lloyd. To be more accurate, the study aims to investigate the local language referents in the work of Lloyd Fernando in "Green is the colour". It is  a sensitive novel about racial and religious tolerance set against the shadow of the 1969 racial riot in Kuala Lumpur where four main characters, good young people from different ethnic groups who become friends and even fell in love. To give this novel a characteristic of being more realistic ,Lloyd Fernando uses lots of local words in his English novel,which lead this work to analyze these local lexis items according to categories made by Baskaran (2005). 

scholarly journals Hookah smoking among young people in Bamako

2021 ◽  
Vol 319 ◽  
pp. 02016
Author(s):  
Abdourahamane Diara ◽  
Tidiane Diallo ◽  
Cheick Abou Coulibaly ◽  
Sanou Khô Coulibaly ◽  
Abdoul Karim Coulibaly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Tobacco Consumption ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Multiple Drug ◽  
Consumer Health ◽  
Concurrent Use ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Hookah Smoking ◽  
A Prospective Study ◽  
Common Association

Introduction: In Mali, shisha has become the most common form of tobacco consumption, which is not without danger for the consumer health. The aim of this study was to assess the consumption level of shisha among young people in the District of Bamako. Methods: This was a prospective study from March 2019 to March 2020. A total of 200 young shisha smokers aged 40 or under were included in this study. Results: The male sex was predominant, with 75% of cases. The majority, or 81.5%, were under the age of 25. According to study data, 26% of respondents said they smoke shisha at least once a day. Over a quarter of cases reported concurrent use of two or more addictive substances. The most common association was with alcohol (13%), cannabis (9%) and cocaine (4.5%). According to the results, 69% of respondents thought that shisha is less harmful than cigarettes. Conclusion: Consumption of shisha has grown considerably in Mali in recent years. This study has highlighted a new form of multiple drug addiction, which could be harmful to the health of consumers. Thus, the authorities concerned must take appropriate measures to combat this scourge.

FIVE YEARS OF ANTI-SMOKING MEASURES IN FRANCE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 761-761
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Tobacco Consumption ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Information Campaigns ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Third ◽  
Cigarette Pack ◽  
The Press ◽  
French People

On 9 July 1976 the French parliament adopted a law which, while binding on advertisers, primarily appealed to the individual's sense of public duty and responsibility. The main provisions of this law were: a ban on all tobacco advertising on television and radio, in cinemas or by posters, and qualitative and quantitative restrictions on advertising in the press; a compulsory statement of the nicotine and tar content on each cigarette pack, together with the words "abuse is dangerous"; a ban on smoking in certain public places and on public vehicles. Within the information campaigns against smoking, three major series of educational messages were developed. The first series stresses the dangers of tobacco for health; the second calls for protection of the rights of non-smokers; and the third series, aimed particularly at young people, attempts to destroy the mystique of smoking and emphasizes its antisocial character. In 1975 about 44% of the adult population were smokers. After the information campaigns were launched this proportion fell to 36% in 1979. Within four years over 2 million French people stopped smoking. While the trend has not been so favourable among young people, the growth of smoking has nevertheless been arrested. In 1977, 46% of 12- to 18-year-olds said they smoked, even if only occasionally. Early in 1980 the corresponding figure was 43%. It can be seen very clearly that the spread of smoking in France has been halted and that tobacco consumption per smoker has been stabilized at the 1975 level.

On the verge of a new era in tobacco control: determining the perceptions and attitudes of IQOS users in Turkey (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatih Uznay ◽  
Sevtap Gumus
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Tobacco Consumption ◽  
Tobacco Product ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
New Era ◽  
Tobacco Control Policies ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes ◽  
Tobacco Epidemic

BACKGROUND IQOS is a heated tobacco product which has been spreading worldwide. The manufacturer of the product claims that IQOS is less harmful than conventional cigarettes. OBJECTIVE This study determined the perceptions and attitudes of IQOS users in Turkey and evaluated the possible impacts of heated tobacco products (HTPs) on tobacco control policies and their implementation in the future. METHODS HTPs are banned in Turkey. However, obtaining IQOS in the black market is easy. We conducted a survey consisting of 30 questions by reaching 100 IQOS users within 13 months in the city of Izmir. We used descriptive statistics to analyse the data. RESULTS Of the 100 IQOS users surveyed, (1) 98% stated that IQOS is less harmful than conventional cigarettes (CC); (2) 98% experienced positive changes to their health after completely switching to IQOS from CC; (3) 76% used IQOS in closed spaces; (4) 82% did not reduce their daily tobacco consumption; (5) 62% stated that IQOS encourages ex-smokers to relapse; (6) 80% stated that IQOS stimulates children and young people to start smoking; (7) 86% stated that the smoking satisfaction from IQOS is very close/equal to that from CC; (8) 56% stated that IQOS makes a positive contribution to their personal image; and (9) 40% claimed that quitting IQOS can be easier than quitting CC. CONCLUSIONS HTPs could cause the tobacco epidemic to grow by undermining smokers’ efforts to quit and encouraging ex-smokers, children and young people to start smoking. The idea that IQOS is less harmful than CC, together with the emerging misleading suggestion that nicotine may block COVID-19 symptoms, could trigger the proliferation of HTPs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ethno-Psychological Aspects of Youth Identity with the City

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Larisa Mahakova
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Internal Migration ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Friedman Analysis ◽  
Youth Identity ◽  
The City

The object of the study is the identity with the city among regional youth. Subject: psychological aspects of youth identity in different ethnic groups. Purpose: to determine the psychological basis for identification with the city of residence among young people, as well as the structure of identity with the city in its various ethnic groups. A modified identification scale with the city developed by M. Lalli was the methodological toolkit. For statistical data processing, the Friedman analysis of variance by Chi-square criterion was used. The results of the work contribute to the search for the psychological foundations of the rooting of young people in their cities in order to minimize the internal migration of the able-bodied young urban population, set their development and prosperity, and implement their personal and professional plans.

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