"Imitation of film: here's smoking at your, kid"

Tsering dicky

The essay title "Imitation of film: here's smoking at your, kid" by Micholas balakar was published in New York Times on November 15,2005.

 The essay title focused on movies is being trigger to kids for smoke.

A nationwide survey published in November issue of pediatrics reports that children are being copying to smoke from film which they had saw. Author mentions that according to research 38% of children continue for smoking. They learn it from movies.

    I agree with author point of view that research found 38% of children are being smoking and imitating from movies. It is true that young kids want to live their life fashionable. They never care about their life anything than their fashionable life. Even though they have knowledge about effect, like from smoke they just ignore it and continue to smoke for their fashionable satisfaction. They try to live their life as their favorite stars. They copy from their favorite stars; they want to be look like them. Like in appearance, attitude, the way how they live their life. I notice that this thing is being target especially from high school kids.

Dr. James D.sargent, the lead author on the study and a professor of pediatrics at Dartmouth medical school, mentions that R-rated movies are being to view about fourth or fifth grade student leads twice as much smoking than as other does.

The researchers found that “children who had the greatest exposure to smoking in movies were more than two and a half times as likely it starts smoking as those who had the lowest exposure.”

Dr. Sargent study’s results “Pertained only the youngest adolescents and that the report did not preclude the possibility that smoking began before the children saw these movies.”

Dr. sargent mentions that association should be taken very seriously regarding this thing. Since the strength of the findings and the fact are almost exactly as earlier regional studies.

It’s our responsibilities whether we are parents from home or teachers from school. We must provide our children better knowledge about disadvantage of smoke or drugs.  We can see in our society that more than 50% of our young generation is being killed by drugs or smoke. In the same time we have to stop those watching R-rated movies. Always remind them “Smoking is injuries to health”. Even while watching movie there should be ads for avoiding smoke or drugs. There should be stick rules in theater that under age are not allowed to watch R-rated movies. Dr. Sargent suggests that “association should be taken very seriously.”

 It is true and I do agree that association should be taken very seriously upon it. Day by day our young kids are being killed. Instead of being a well-educated they are being killed or target from drugs. We must stop this activity.

I can compare this article with one of my cousin brother who died last year only. He was only 18 years old. We never get chance to know that he is being addicted. Since our life was really busy. He was a good boy, don’t know how it really happened, it is because of environment where is growing up or his new habit. He keep involving in drugs. He was a very fashionable. Always wants to have a new technology with him. Prefer to get up like stars. All the sudden we notice his changes. Changes like bunking classes. He was in rehab for three months. He was doing good, so he came back home but after few weeks on Thursday we found his dead body in his bed because of overdose. We lost him due to drugs.

  It’s better to stop not letting under age children to watch R-rated movies and movie which expose more smoking.