Today, the use of tobacco is one of the most significant problems of humanity. The most common forms of tobacco use are cigarette smoking, hookah, roll tobacco, and cigars. At the moment, there are no tobacco products that do not harm health. Most tobacco users live in countries with low or middle salaries. An excellent example of such a place is Mississippi state in the United States. According to the research, “Current cigarette smokers were defined as those who reported ever smoking at least 100 cigarettes during their lifetime and reporting smoking every day or some days at the time of the survey” (Chang et al., 2016, p. 1741). Tobacco use causes significant economic damage; people spend a considerable amount of money treating diseases caused by tobacco usage. According to WHO (2020) research, the organization admits that almost half of the children breathe air polluted by tobacco smoke in public places, and 65000 die each year from second-hand smoke. Tobacco companies try to promote their product by creating advertisements, which causes constant monitoring of the product. Fortunately, some resources can help reduce tobacco consumption over several years.
Manufactured cigarettes are the most common in humanity’s life; they are made of small pieces of tobacco, rolled into a paper-wrapped cylinder. Its popularity makes it the most dangerous type of tobacco product. The conducted research admits that cigarette smoking causes cancer and early death (Healthy People 2030, 2018). The second place is taken by chewing tobacco and tobacco in pipes. Marshall discusses the recent tendency in the use of non-traditional tobacco products. He writes that there is a rising trend in the use of nonconventional tobacco products (Marshall et al., 2016, p. 141). Chewing tobacco has become popular in recent years; this product impresses that it is smokeless and convenient to use, unlike traditional cigarettes. Hookah is an instrument that provides tobacco usage by heating and vaporizing; e-cigarettes have a similar process of providing tobacco but with a different form of carrier. These forms of tobacco products are the most affordable and, therefore, the most dangerous today. People first of all need to fight these types of tobacco in order to end the tobacco epidemic.
In 2019, 27.6% of Mississippi high school youth reported using any tobacco product, including e-cigarettes. Among Mississippi high school youth, 6.6% reported currently smoking cigarettes (CDC, 2021). States, such as Mississippi state with a low level of life, use tobacco the most; in most cases, people have nowhere to go for professional help and break their addiction independently. It does not work because there are no people nearby who could control and bring the process to an end. It does not mean that all these people want to smoke for the rest of their days. It is essential to establish the agreed-upon health goals to help people, such as taking a careful look at a person’s health, building a plan to get rid of tobacco addiction, and getting regular health checks. If local medicine paid more attention to an acute problem and created additional institutions, the number of smokers would decrease significantly. People suffer from smoking because of life problems, by reducing nervous fatigue, but none thinks it is killing them from the inside.
Sociogram provides information about specific states of the US by learning about their family’s route, the state where they live, their level of life, and people’s relationship. To develop a sociogram for the tobacco usage problem, people need to understand such factors as where the person works, what level of life they consider themselves to be in, and their family relations. Then, based on patients’ responses, templates should be built to which the majority of the population will build separate groups for further work. These groups will differ in starting smoking and the age category, and the type of tobacco they use. Such analysis can create a portrait of the average smoker as a middle-aged person with life troubles, which will significantly facilitate helping to eliminate the rest of the population.
People who smoke need to monitor their health many times more; persistent headaches and irritability affect their nervous system. First of all, smoking strongly affects the condition of the teeth. According to research, “Tobacco use impacts on oral and dental tissues, the greater perceived need of smokers compared to non-smokers, and increased duration and frequency of patient visit allow dentists to provide cessation services consistently” (Naziya et al., 2017, p. 130). People need to understand three health risks of tobacco use: problems with the heart, bad teeth, and an unstable nervous system. Medicine wants only to help them eliminate addiction, not to shorten such people’s lives.
In addition, the expectations for this educational session can be different. The considered Mississippi state citizens agree to such an event since they will understand that it can help their health. There will also be unique cases that will impose help on some part of the population since people may be scared to talk to them and conduct some analysis. Fortunately, the goals will be achieved; professionalists build up the sociogram to provide individual help, showing how the locals are similar and differs among themselves. Then they provide several events divided by age categories and the reason for smoking population groups. It will influence the development of events properly and facilitate further work with specific people or families about whom certain information will be known in advance.
Summing up, one can say that smoking is an acute problem in the modern world. This epidemic has negative consequences on everyone on the planet, even if some have never smoked in their lives. Passive smoking infects many people every day, and only by carrying out such events, does humanity gets a chance to escape. The Mississippi state needs help from world-class professionals because local governments can not provide such medical services. Specialists will conduct individual or family analyses to find a unique and effective method for patient recovery.
References
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2021). Extinguishing the Tobacco Epidemic in Mississippi. Cdc.Gov. Web.
Chang, J. T., Levy, D. T., & Meza, R. (2016). Trends and factors related to smokeless tobacco use in the United States. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 18(8), 1740-1748.
Healthy People 2030. (2018). Increase Medicaid Coverage of Evidence-based Treatment to Help People Quit Using Tobacco – TU-16. Healthy People 2030. Web.
Marshall, J. R., Lotfipour, S., & Chakravarthy, B. (2016). The growing trend of alternative tobacco use among the nation’s youth: A new generation of addicts. The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 17(2), 139–142.
Naziya, K. B., Sakthi, D. S., Arumugham, I. M., & Kumar, R. P. (2017). Knowledge, attitude, and practice about barriers to tobacco intervention services among dental students in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Journal of Advanced Pharmacy Education & Research| Apr-Jun, 7(2).
World Health Organization. (2020). Tobacco.WHO | World Health Organization. Web.