Some youngsters of the venerable community are found to be more acceptable to be exposed to tobacco marketing these days than the young adults outside of these communities. University of Kentucky College of Medicine has found this.
Shamika rose, Ph.D., a professor for Health Equity Transformation and assistant professor in the Department of Behavioral Science and a member of Markey Cancer Centre and Prevention of Cancer and Control Program, has said that some of their study findings can help the leaders of their respective communities to create certain policies that can reduce the exposure of young life to tobacco.
Vulnerable Communities Are Linked To Tobacco Marketing Exposure
Tobacco contains harmful elements that affect various organs with consumption. There are different products in the market that attract people from various age groups, and they use the same in different forms.
A team of experts has checked various profiles where they have gone through the medical history and age as well as amount of consumption that are primarily popular in particular communities only.
In some groups of such communities, it is a matter of prestige, but at the time, they ignore the health aspects of the consumer.
Rose said that the youth is addicted to tobacco and got stuck in this tobacco marketing web by showing interest in smoking which at last leads to nicotine addiction and eventually increases the risk of some cancers and cardio diseases in their later life.
Policies that can reduce the exposure to tobacco, mainly in vulnerable communities, will be helpful to find the increase in tobacco-related health inconsistency between different communities in aspects of color, less income population, and youth.
The paper produced in the annals of behavioral medicine in July was the larger study of rose, and it led him to examine exposure to tobacco marketing among young adults. Rose and Julia Chen Sankey co-led the study; Julia Chen Sankey is with the national institute on minority health and health inequalities and presents he is an assistant professor at Rutgers university center for tobacco studies.
Rose’s team has found that marketing of tobacco exposure among some non-smoking young adults, for two weeks they have examined and the participants to this exposure have checked their smartphones no of times to give an exact estimation of their exposure to tobacco in real-time.
The study recognized the vital risk factors for exposure to tobacco, as they are living in venerable community and being in among the people who take tobacco and in some public places tobacco marketing is easy. Young adults get curious about these sensitive matters, and they can easily become addicted to them.
The neck results showed that the young men of the vulnerable community, those who are with higher smoking rates, the residence of lower-income were more prevail to get exposed to marketing tobacco especially to flavored products.
Menthol cigarettes this is one of the tobacco products it contains flavored content in it which gives flavor to it. It is easy to start but very tough to quit. These are mostly used by color communities, and in low-income populations, Rose said.
Rose says that health inequality is seen in venerable communities because the outcomes, which are aligned with the tobacco industry, had a long history of targeting minority groups. The results have shown that tobacco marketing among the young adults who are not present users of tobacco. Initially, they are exposed to this marketing in their daily lives through retail advertisements.
Rose said that if the tobacco exposure goes beyond the level, then it results in tobacco retailers marketing their stuff in casual places such as grocery stores, gas stations which normalize the tobacco use among young adults.
