According to our text book Risk Communication by Regina Lundgren, care communication should be used for situations in which the risk is no longer in doubt. As far as smoking goes, the dangers have already been established. The purpose then, following the care communication category, is to present information on smoking to college students to both encourage less risky behavior to increase their awareness.
Under the care communication category I first wanted to establish an audience. The audience spectrum for smoking can be extremely broad. Arguably the spectrum can start from the time a person, presumably a teenager, takes a drag of their first cigarette all the way up to an eighty year old who has been smoking for years.
The purpose of this blog is to create an awareness about smoking at an early age so you can prevent it before it even starts. Therefore, my audience includes young adults, more specifically college students, who have just started smoking or have yet to start.
Care communication is used to help change behavior, here we're doing that and trying to prevent it. According to a recent study, over 90% off students who smoke cigarettes in college will continue to smoke up to at least four years after graduating. By informing college students
There are a number of different ways identify bad smoking habits. Some of these include asking yourself questions like "Where am I smoking?", "Who am I smoking with?", "Am I smoking because I'm stressed?" Statistics can also be a powerful tool in preventing smoking.
Remember, Smoking is the single most preventable cause of premature death.
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I think that your idea of conveying this risk by care communication is the best way to do so. There are numerous students, usually first years, who take the idea of freedom to a whole different level. By leaving home and leaving parental guidance many students find it easy to use and abuse alcohol, drugs, and even cigarettes. Since there is no need to hide the fact that you’re doing these things, students tend to participate in using them more. Since smoking is already a huge risk that has already had a number of attempts to express its dangers, you should find a unique way to encompass this vulnerable group of college students in your risk communicating efforts. The amount of information and data that is out there will really help your risk communication efforts by proving statistically that there is a big issue that must be addressed and stopped.
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