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.
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