Early Exposureof Select Male Students to Smoking and its Effect to Their Health and Schooling at Ananias C. Hernandez Memorial National High School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

What the school prioritizes the most is not actually the quality of education but the well-being of the students it serves. For this reason, a student has to feel the safest conditions possible to fully make his study as great as it should be. Part of these is to consider his health state and attitudes towards his study. And one of the difficulties that he may be possibly be engaged in is Cigarette-smoking and this is something that needs sufficient attention and concern for once he gets exposed in a not-so-good habit this brings not-so-good-effect to his health and schooling.

METHODS

The Descriptive Method was used for this study. The survey, Questionnaire, and Testimonies were utilized in accumulating the information and data. There were 10 respondents of the study from different grade levels who were proven to be exposed to this kind of habit at a young age. The record of the Anti-Tobacco Campaign Coordinator was the basis of choosing the students to be interviewed. Questionnaires were given to the respondents which were answered with honesty. Follow-up queries were asked after surveying and answering questions to further inquire for deeper causes and reasons why they have become engaged in this kind of habit.

RESULTS

There were ten male students chosen to go under this study. It was found out that the earliest experience of cigarette-smoking was at the age of eleven. Eight of them were admitted that their friends were the main reason why they began such habit while the two confessed that its origin to their life was due to curiosity. All of them have ideas about the possible dangers that smoking brings to their health and they are aware that it even affects their outlook on the definition of studying well. It was a good indication that they are all being reprimanded when caught doing it at home is being forbidden by their parents to continue this habit. It is very alarming that at their age, they already consume the number of cigarettes which is not good for their health and study.

DISCUSSIONS

There's a need for effective action plans, that's what the result showed. People around a student's life are such a big factor why he becomes acquainted with something he is not supposed to be in. There should be something to be done to the root causes and existing problems at the moment regarding cigarette-smoking, its effects to study and health.