JULIAN DAVID DIAZ GIL

SEBASTIAN CELIS ALONSO

Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances on earth. Some doctors claim it’s more

addictive than heroin and cocaine. Not only does it stimulate the brain, but it enters the

bloodstream and calms the nerves.

People say that they use tobacco for many different reasons, ike stress relief, pleasure, or in
social situations

Among young people, the short-term health consequences of smoking include respiratory
and non respiratory effects, addiction to nicotine, and the associated risk of other drug use.
 Determine percentage of students of Uniminuto night classes, who consume
cigarettes and their main reasons for doing
 Identify percentage of students of Uniminuto night classes, who consume cigarettes
 recognize their reasons for smoke
 Knowing the main reason of students of Uniminuto night classes for smoke
 A cigarette is a small cylinder of finely cut tobacco leaves rolled in thin paper for
smoking. The cigarette is ignited at one end causing the cigarette to smoulder and
allowing smoke to be inhaled from the other end, which is held in or to the mouth;
in some cases, a cigarette holder may be used, as well. Most modern manufactured
cigarettes are filtered, and also include reconstituted tobacco and other additives
 the cigarette transcends from very remote times, was cultivated and used
by the tribes that in that then existed, was very common to see men and
women with a taco of these in the hand, inhaling and aspiring all that smoke,
it is said that it is one of the oldest and greatest vices that has existed in
history, which is very accurate, it is also known that it comes from a long
time ago, several years before Christ, before it was commonly called
tobacco and it took some time until some beggar Take this and wrap it in a
smaller paper, calling it a cigarette.
 The basic components of most cigarettes are tobacco, chemical additives, a filter,
and paper wrapping. Smokers are exposed to a toxic mix of over 4,000 chemicals
when they inhale cigarette smoke.1 The harmful chemicals in cigarette smoke can
damage many parts of the body, including the heart and lungs or cause cancer.
Nonsmokers are exposed to many of these same chemicals through secondhand
smoke.
 Most people start smoking and become addicted to nicotine when they are still
children. Those whose parents or siblings smoke are around three times more
likely to smoke than children living in non-smoking households. Children who
start smoking at the youngest ages are more likely to smoke heavily and find it
harder to give up. These smokers are at the greatest risk of developing smoking
related diseases.
 Ecuadorian adolescents between 13 and 15 years old smoke equal or more than
adults, according to the "World Tobacco Atlas 2012“
 The consumption of young women is 18.1%, mayor to 5.8% of adult women, a
relation of three to one, notes the report prepared by the World Lung Foundation
and the American Cancer Society. In addition, teens smoke more than in the past.
According to the World Survey of School-aged Adolescents, the prevalence of
adolescent consumption in 2001 was 49% in Quito, Guayaquil and Zamora. For 2007
the figure went up to 71% in those cities. For Patricio Jácome, responsible for the
Tobacco Control Program of the Ministry of Health, the highest consumption of
adolescents is explained, in part, because the tobacco industry has all its public
work towards young people and women
 Nicotine is the chemical in tobacco that keeps you smoking. Nicotine is very
addictive when delivered by inhaling tobacco smoke into the lungs, which quickly
releases nicotine into the blood allowing it to get into the brain within seconds of
taking a puff. In the brain nicotine increases the release of brain chemicals called
neurotransmitters, which help regulate mood and behavior.
 Dopamine, one of these neurotransmitters, is released in the "reward center" of the
brain and causes improved mood and feelings of pleasure. Experiencing these
effects from nicotine is what makes tobacco so addictive.
 Nicotine dependence involves behavioral (routines, habits, feelings) as well as
physical factors. These behavioral associations with smoking may act as triggers —
situations or feelings that activate a craving for tobacco, even if you have not
smoked for some time.
 Cigarette smoking by young people leads to immediate and serious health problems
including respiratory and nonrespiratory effects, addiction to nicotine, and the
associated risk of other drug use.
 Smoking at an early age increases the risk of lung cancer. For most smoking-related
cancers, the risk
 rises as the individual continues to smoke.
 Cigarette smoking causes heart disease, stroke, chronic lung disease, and cancers of
the lung, mouth, pharynx, esophagus, and bladder.
 Use of smokeless tobacco causes cancers of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus; gum
recession; and an
 increased risk for health disease and stroke.
 Smoking cigars increases the risk of oral, laryngeal, esophageal, and lung cancers.5,
The goal of marketing is to increase the appeal and acceptability of a product as well as
to make the product available to the potential consumer. Tobacco marketing strategie:
establish attitudinal predispositions that lead nonusers to experiment with tobacco
products and interpret their experience as positive and rewarding.
foster the perception that consumption of tobacco products in general and in particular
contexts (places, times) is normative,
minimize concern about the potential risks associated with tobacco use, propagating the
perception that there are ''safe" smoking options, and
reassure smokers and users of smokeless tobacco that possible risks are worth the
benefits received from tobacco use. Marketing strategies promote both brand-specific
and aggregate tobacco use. The impression that tobacco use is desirable and normative
is conveyed through image advertising and promotions that make tobacco products
highly visible in public spaces—if not by their presence, then by proxy in the forms of
brand trademarks, insignia, logos, and items associated with preestablished brand
images (for example, adventure scenarios). The major forms of marketing are highlighted
below.
 The research methodology used in this project, corresponds to a survey made to
the students of night classes of the University Corporation Minuto de Dios
Question 1:
We can say and conclude that students are clear that cigarettes are harmful to their
health and affect everyone around them.
 Question 2:
Percentage of students who smoke
 Question 3:
Number of cigarettes smoked in the day
 Question 4:
 Daily cigarette consumption expenditure
 Question 5:
 feeling when students do not smoke
 Question 6:
 main reason why they started consuming cigarettes
 Question 7:
 Cigarette consumption during the exam period
 Question 8:
 Cigarette consumption during difficulties of family problems
 Question 9:
 discomfort with cigarette smoke
 Question 10:
 measures to regulate cigarette consumption
 According to the estimated sample for this investigation of 68 people, the percentage of students
who smoke cigarettes was determined.
 It is concluded that 65.2% of the students surveyed smoke and that the main factor that prompted
them to do so was thanks to their friends and curiosity, both with an equal percentage of 39.5%,

 Regarding the perception that students have about cigarette consumption, it is concluded that for
89.8% of students smoking is harmful and harmful to health, however 65.5% of them continue to
do so.

 On the other hand we can say that the main reason why students smoke is due to stress which is
caused in partials season with a percentage of 79.5% among students who smoke. Taking into
account that family problems help increase consumption according to survey 74.4%

In the same way we can conclude that 31.8% of students who consume cigarettes spend $ 500 to $
1000 (Colombian pesos) daily and 29.5% spend $ 2000 to $ 3000 (Colombian pesos).
 The main problem is the lack of awareness in smokers since they do not think that
the damage is not just for them. But they are affecting all the people around them
and close to them with cigarette smoke

 we can perceive that in the university community the consumption is quite high
since it is evident on a daily basis that many of the students smoke. The surveys
confirm this and the proposed hypothesis supports this perception since it is
evident that 65.2% of students smoke
 In UNIMINUTO students the consumption of cigarettes increases markedly in
conditions or situations of pressure or stress, this is reaffirmed by the survey
showing results that are oriented towards the proposed hypothesis, therefore, we
can say that the main factor of increased consumption Cigarette is when you make
the partial of each cut of the semester.