group discussion
- Within your community, there has been a large increase in teenage smoking, and community leaders are developing a plan to decrease the incidence of smoking. To help them, you will:
A) Develop a research question to address the problem.
B) Determine what kind of study should be undertaken.
C) Design a study to decrease the incidence of smoking in teenagers.
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#A
The increased number of young people hooked on tobacco smoking is due to the availability of the drugs, poor parenting and peer pressure. The habit is still the number one cause of preventable deaths in the US and it is therefore important to establish ways of reducing teenage smoking. What are the most effective strategies that can be implemented to reduce or prevent tobacco smoking among the young people?
#B
It is important to conduct studies meant to first establish the root cause of the problem and start preventing its influence to the target group.
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