The intervention level will focus on Community Mobilization and Public Health Awareness Programs to reduce youth tobacco smoking in United States. Combined and coordinated community levels of action have proved to be successful in reducing access to tobacco and stoppage to smoking. The community-based interventions mentioned by CDC (2007) involve initial awareness on prevention on initiation of tobacco among the young people through school based programs, increasing the price on narcotics, anti tobacco campaigns creating non-smoking zones to protect against secondary smoke and creating attitudes and behavior norms that will lead to change.
Mobilization of venders to restrict access to tobacco by the youth and under aged would reduce cases of tobacco among the youth considering denied access is as good stopping the desire over time. Public health institutions should also form a strong approach in public awareness in reducing the usage of tobacco by displaying and educating about the diseases caused by continuous use of tobacco and the adverse health effects like cancer, heart disease and respiratory complications that eventually lead to death due to poor diets.
In as much as the cessation program focusing on the individual is important, it is critical for the public to be involved in reducing the tobacco intake by social collective responsibility because a unified approach provides a greater effect. These efforts have proved successful as compared to group or individual therapy. Individual therapy is effective as well and would go side by side with the community mobilization. But government funding and public policy and laws should regulate the manufacturer and seller of tobacco. Government budgets should be allocated to public intervention programs that deal communities and the anti-tobacco campaigns. Massive education at grassroots is important if the war on youth tobacco usage will be stopped.
Mobilization of venders to restrict access to tobacco by the youth and under aged would reduce cases of tobacco among the youth considering denied access is as good stopping the desire over time. Public health institutions should also form a strong approach in public awareness in reducing the usage of tobacco by displaying and educating about the diseases caused by continuous use of tobacco and the adverse health effects like cancer, heart disease and respiratory complications that eventually lead to death due to poor diets.
In as much as the cessation program focusing on the individual is important, it is critical for the public to be involved in reducing the tobacco intake by social collective responsibility because a unified approach provides a greater effect. These efforts have proved successful as compared to group or individual therapy. Individual therapy is effective as well and would go side by side with the community mobilization. But government funding and public policy and laws should regulate the manufacturer and seller of tobacco. Government budgets should be allocated to public intervention programs that deal communities and the anti-tobacco campaigns. Massive education at grassroots is important if the war on youth tobacco usage will be stopped.
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