Psychology 2036A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Nicotine Replacement Therapy, Passive Smoking, Nicotine Gum
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Behaviours: behaviours practiced by people that undermine or harm their current or future health, many health-compromising behaviours are habitual, and several, including smoking, are addictive. Those who abuse substances typically do poorly in school. Family problems, deviance, and low self-esteem appear to explain this relationship: difficult temperament, poor self-control, and deviance-prone attitudes are related to peer and adolescent substance use of tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana. Large portion of these deaths cardiovascular related: smoking is the single greatest cause of preventable death, smoking also accounts for at least 30% of all cancer deaths. Increases risks for heart disease and lung cancer. A brief history of the smoking problem: smoking was considered to be a sophisticated and manly habit. 19th- and 20th-century - men retiring to the drawing room after dinner for cigars and brandy: cigarette advertisements of early 20th century built on this image & by 1965, 61% of adult male population in canada was smoking.