PHENOMENON SMOKING

PHENOMENON SMOKING

"Smoking", who is it who do not know with this job. Burning cigarette with a match or cigarette lighter even the most sophisticated manual while menyongkoknya by hand to the flame burning cigarette is more an act that looks cool for some people, especially adult males. Actually, anyone could have smoked; ranging from children aged 7 years, adolescents and adult women and even effeminate son who hung diperempatan bencong road at night even smoke. That's what makes smoking becomes a kind of phenomenon should be studied and discussed in this paper.
From tracing the writer aware that cigarettes began to be found at the end of the 15th century in North America where the cigarettes smoked in those days was mainly by Indians in America (approximately 4000 years ago or earlier) is not a smoking bar (white Cigarette, black and brown and kind of cigars) as we know it today but still in the form of tobacco rolled in dry leaves in which the Indians call it Kribia Tobago. The act of smoking Indian tribes are generally used as a worship of spirits good and to avoid evil spirits in addition to matters related to medical (drugs) where it has become a kind of culture in American Indian tribal communities.
Back to our country, Indonesia, smoking is no longer the sort of culture of a tribe, but it's a lifestyle that includes people of all walks of status so that it becomes an interesting phenomenon to be studied. The facts on smoking in Indonesia itself can be described as based on the results of a survey "Global Youth Tobacco" that Indonesia was ranked the third largest in Asia after China and India which found women smokers increased from 10x previously coupled with the children who become smokers up 45% with quantitative data; 37% of 70 million Indonesian children to be active smokers (25.9 million children) by finding the reasons for the influence invitation of friends and because of the influence of mass media that promote smoking as from magazines, newspapers, television and Internet. While the data from Indonesia Smokers Alliance itself mentions that the production of cigarettes as much as 120 billion cigarettes / year where 54% of foreign exchange sourced from the people who consume tobacco.
Smoking as a lifestyle is something extraordinary thing where someone will menajadi panic if they do not smoke in a day than those not eating in a day. A student will not be able to concentrate mengerjakaan resume duty when not smoking, a 10-year elementary school children will not be serious to play its online games in the cafe when not smoking, even so the case when a young woman will not be able to enjoy the beat of disco music in the pubs clubbing mix subscription when not smoking first. Once the importance of smoke so it represents a symbol of one's status within the community where the person is located and will cause it to feel depressed and insecure when not smoking much less stylish stomp the ashes of a cigarette.
Analyzed from the emergence of the phenomenon could be due to cigarette smoking and smoking has become something done by all of the status of people in society so that the emerging perkumpulan-perkumpulan/komunitas smokers who support the "License Smoking" for all people including children coupled with pensosialisasian that smoking as the largest contributor to foreign exchange income plus vigorous promotion of cigarettes-gencaran in the media (with the charismatic statement: "Smoking can cause cancer, impotence and disorders of pregnancy and the fetus") either through the insertion of ad impressions in the show as well as Opera Van Java amid the rubric of "Let's Mingle" in teen magazines so that smoking becomes a kind of social action in society besides their own cigarettes have become a form of symbolic association for adolescents with genknya, businesses with customers, a man with his manhood as well as children with a maturity that will be able to represent the symbol status in relation to others without realizing that the act of smoking is simply an ancient culture of Indian tribes in America used to be.

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