KEDAH MATRICULATION COLLEGE

TITLE: CAUSES OF SMOKING AMONG KEDAH MATRICULATION COLLEGE STUDENTS.

GROUP MEMBERS: ABDUL HAKIM BIN ABDULLAH (MS1118524815) MUHAMMAD FARIS BIN MOHD HANAFIAH (MS1118526224) IQMAL SHAFIQ BIN JAAFAR (MS118525494) TUTORAL GROUP: S2K1T3B LECTURER: MDM. VIMALA A/P DARVMANATHAN SUBMISSION DATE: 16TH FEBRUARY 2012

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would like to appreciate our group members, Hakim, Iqmal and Faris want to thank and appreciation to the lecturer, Madam Vimala that help us a lot. We concurrently guidance from our lecturer itself. Madam Vimala has given us guidance to folio completion of this English assignment. In addition, appreciation and gratitude also goes to my family who helped me in terms of financial and energy to help me complete this folio. Our parent helps us very well. Not forgetting the friends who helped and never tired to give guidance and they give a lot information to us for making this English folio. Folio also has become one of the review processes for us, and I hope that my performance in these subjects will improve. Hopefully, this particular work will continue to run for the future to

strengthen and enhance the knowledge of English students. Finally, once again I want to say my deepest appreciation and gratitude to all parties involved in the production of this folio. We also ask forgiveness to everybody that cooperates with our group to solve our problem. Thank you.

TABLE OF CONTENTS No. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Title Acknowledgement Table of contents List of illustrations 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Methodology 3.0 Findings and Discussion 4.0 Conclusion and Recommendations References Appendix Page I II III-IV 1 2 3-4 5 6 7-9

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

TABLE 1: YES OR NO QUESTIONS Question Question 1 Question 2 Yes 10% 100% No 90% 0%

CHART 1: YES OR NO QUESTIONS

TABLE 2: QUESTIONS 3 TO 6 Questions Question 3 Question 4 Question 5 Question 6 A 50% 40% 4% 4% B 0% 30% 83% 39% C 45% 20% 9% 9% D 5% 10% 4% 48%

CHART 2: QUESTIONS 3 TO 6

1.0 INTRODUCTION

Smoking is a practice in which a substance, most commonly tobacco or cannabis, is burned and the smoke is tasted or inhaled. This is primarily practised as a route of administration for recreational drug use, as combustion releases the active substances in drugs such as nicotine and makes them available for absorption through the lungs. It can also be done as a part of rituals, to induce trances and spiritual enlightenment. The most common method of smoking today is through cigarettes, primarily industrially manufactured but also hand-rolled from loose tobacco and rolling paper. Other smoking implements include pipes, cigars, and bongs. It has been suggested that smoking-related disease kills one half of all long term smokers but these diseases may also be contracted by non-smokers. A 2007 report states that about 4.9 million people worldwide each year die as a result of smoking. Early smoking evolved in association with religious ceremonies; as offerings to deities, in cleansing rituals or to allow shamans and priests to alter their minds for purposes of divination or spiritual enlightenment. After the European exploration and conquest of the Americans, the practice of smoking tobacco quickly spread to the rest of the world. In regions like India and Subsaharan Africa, it merged with existing practices of smoking (mostly of cannabis). In Europe, it introduced a new type of social activity and a form of drug intake which previously had been unknown.

2.0 METHODOLOGY

The method that we used to conduct our research was by distributing questionnaires. There are 10 questions in set of questionnaire. The questions were divided into four categories. Questions 1 and 2 was yes or no questions, question 3 to 6 was multiple choices questions, question 7 and 8 was fill in the blank, and finally, question 9 and 10 was open-ended questions. The questionnaires was given to 20 respondents and divided into four different modules which are module 1, module 2, module 3, and accounting. Each module then was divided into five respondents.

3.0 FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

Based on the analysis of our first question, most respondents do not believe that smoking can relieve stress. This is due to smoking only spending their own money. For the second question, all respondents agreed that smoking can harm the body of a smoker. This is because; respondents are most knowledgeable about the evil of smoking. For the next question, a majority of 50% of respondents agreed the main factors that influence the student to smoke is peer influence. In addition, 45% of respondents believe in the influence of the environment as a factor entangled with smoking. The educational pressure as factors that motivate a person to smoke. All students living in hostel, so

students' relationships with their partners more closely, so that peer influence is high. Fourth question, 40% of respondents chose kick out and 20% provides counseling as a way to reduce the number of smokers among the students of KMC. 30% of respondents chose a public canning and 10% given a warning as a way to reduce the number of smokers. This is because, in a public canning and given counseling smokers to enhance public awareness in KMC. The next question, about 83% of respondents chose the toilet as a place to smoke. About 9% of respondents who chose the outside of KMC, 4% chose the room and hostel staircase as a place to smoke. This is because each times the respondents in the toilet they saw student was smoking there. For the question 6, about 48% of respondents choose to smoke during their leisure time, 39% chose the middle of the night, 9% chose at noon and 4% chose in the morning as the students to smoke. We found the students smoke at leisure as they do not have class at that time. Meanwhile for number 7, the best answer we received from respondents is that they must be willing and determined to quit smoking. This is because the determination is important to develop personal character.

For another question, the answer in the sense we have received is relevant to lead to lung cancer, oral cancer and mutations in chromosomes for pregnant women. This is because; cigarettes have more than 25 harmful chemicals that encourage the affected person's health. For question number 9, this question asks about how to advice friends who smoke to quit is to think about the future and your loved ones. This can be proved by the many advertisements that display on the grief suffered by loved ones as well as smokers. For the last question, the receive parents opinion about buy the waste of public like to money to burn their

smokers and why we own money either from

is when to or

cigarettes; it is can

allowances received. We

see when students are

smoking out of money sooner than students who do not smoke as much spending money to buy cigarettes.

4.0 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS Based on the analysis we perform, we have found some causes of smoke in the KMC among students are peer influences, family background, environment influences, educational

pressure and many more. The most abundant source of KMC smoking is the cause of students and peers followed by environmental influences. Other than that, the best way to reduce smokers in KMC students are public canning, kick out, give counseling, and give warning. Most respondents chose kick out and give warning as the best way to reduce smokers in KMC students. In addition, we found that the effects of smoking are lung thus can lead to cancer, oral death the

cancer, mutations in mother or the content. For future

the chromosome

in maternal content and

generations, who

wish

to continue their study should

include respondents women to get more accurate results about the bad effect of smoking among the students of KMC. This is because smokers are

not necessarily among men but women also. The amount of women smokers is increasing in this country to an alarming rate, especially among young women aged between 13 years to 15 years. Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai World said the Health

Global Youth Tobacco Survey (Global Youth Tobacco Survey), Organization (WHO) in 2009 showed the percentage of young

women smokers is 12.4

percent compared to 11.5 percent in the survey in 2003. He said the overall number of women smokers also showed an increase of 5.3 percent in the study of 2009 compared to4.2 percent in 2003.

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Quit smoking the 10 best practices for non-smoking future (2011). Retrieved February 5, 2012 from http://www.healthtory.com/general-health/quit-smoking-the-10-best-practices-for-non-smoking-future/ Smoking. (2012). Retrieved January 6, 2012 from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/smoke The definition of smoking and how to quit (2012). Retrieved January 12, 2012 from http://www.scribd.com/febzz/d/13138885-The-Definition-Of-Smoking-and-How-to-Quit The effect of smoking (2005). Retrieved December 31, 2011 from

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APPENDICES

NEWS STRAITS TIMES,19 AUGUST 2010

CONTENT IN CIGARETTE

EFFECTS OF SMOKING,

UNDER AGE SMOKER

ILLUSTRATION OF SMOKING.