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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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 Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:15 am Post subject: High School Girls Smoke Twice as Much as Adult Women |
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High School Girls Smoke Twice as Much as Adults
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A recent survey shows that Korean teenagers are stressed from too much studying and that one in 20 attempted suicide in the past year. The study also found that 12.4 percent of senior high school girls are smokers, which is more than double the percentage of Korean women who smoke at 5.8 percent.
The Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention conducted an online survey of 80,000 teenagers nationwide from September to October and announced the results on Thursday.
When asked how stressed they are normally, 45.1 percent of the respondents said "a lot." Only 35.1 percent of adults answered the same. One in five respondents said they have considered suicide, and 5.5 percent said that they attempted suicide in the past twelve months. That's up from 4.8 percent who said they attempted suicide in a 2005 survey.
The study found that younger students are turning to smoking and drinking to relieve their stress, with the average age when students began experimenting with cigarettes and alcohol dropping to sixth grade in elementary school. In 1998, most students said they first started smoking or drinking in ninth grade
Some 12 percent of senior high school girls said they have smoked within the past month, and 33 percent said they drank alcohol in the past month.
Students who smoke or drink tended to have more sexual experience and were more prone to try suicide. One out of four students who smoke said that they are sexually active, which is nine times more than the students who don't smoke. One out of eight smokers said they have attempted suicide, which is three times the number of suicidal students who don't smoke.
Sexually active students were six times more likely to be drinkers, and the number of drinkers who have attempted suicide was double that of suicidal students who don't drink.
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richardlang
Joined: 21 Jan 2007
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:24 am Post subject: |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:35 am Post subject: |
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| I's say they're drinking and smoking because they're teenagers and they wanna cut loose and rebel a bit. Not too much. They're Korean after all. Just a bit of rebelling is enough. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:54 am Post subject: |
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Did they poll any of the women in the bathroom?
I know a LOT of korean women that say they don't smoke. Until they go into the women's bathroom. Then its a different story. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:55 am Post subject: |
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An on-line survey? Whatever.
A few weeks ago my high school girls had to take a government survey about smoking, actually. I wonder what the results of that will be. At any rate, I highly doubt that 12% of my students are smokers. I've seen one, smelled it on another, and heard of a couple of them getting in supreme crap for it in over a year and a half at a girls high school. On the other hand, I was a bit taken aback the weekend after graduation when I saw three of my recently graduated students casually holding cigarettes in their hands at the local hof - and two of them were really nice students, too, who almost never got in trouble. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:56 am Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
Did they poll any of the women in the bathroom?
I know a LOT of korean women that say they don't smoke. Until they go into the women's bathroom. Then its a different story. |
My former students say that the ladies room at uni always reaks of cigarette smoke. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:06 am Post subject: |
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| Just when I thought Korean girls couldn't get ANY hotter. |
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xtchr
Joined: 23 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:22 am Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| pkang0202 wrote: |
Did they poll any of the women in the bathroom?
I know a LOT of korean women that say they don't smoke. Until they go into the women's bathroom. Then its a different story. |
My former students say that the ladies room at uni always reaks of cigarette smoke. |
And at bus and train stations, any public toilets actually, especially the ones at the far end are filthy with cigarette butts everywhere, and stinking. Far more women smoke in this country than the small percentage listed above. But I guess if it's done in secret it doesn't really happen.  |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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Last night at our school festival and 'campfire' there were a lot of visitors and I caught two girls from another high school smoking behind my house (I live on campus). I couldn't believe their reaction. At first they just turned around and pretended not to notice me. When I tapped them on the shoulder they turned around, hiding their cigarettes behind their backs. Then when I made them put them out they looked genuinely peeved, as if I had taken their hand mirrors away during class.
Later I saw three of my grade 3 vocational high school girls returning from the same area chewing gum and I'm 95% certain what they were up to. Hmmm... do I smell their hands and then drag them off to find their homeroom teacher or the VP? Ah, I don't teach them anymore and they've always been polite to me and never given me any trouble, even if they never gave a damn about learning English. What would be the point when come December they'll just be smoking wherever they please?
Yes, the rate may well be going up a lot, regardless of the naivity of high school teachers. |
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jdog2050
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| pkang0202 wrote: |
Did they poll any of the women in the bathroom?
I know a LOT of korean women that say they don't smoke. Until they go into the women's bathroom. Then its a different story. |
My former students say that the ladies room at uni always reaks of cigarette smoke. |
'f she smokes, she pokes. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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Last night I was headed home after a group of area waygooks had our Functional Alcoholics Anonymous meeting at the local hof, and as I was walking down the street to my house saw one of my grade 3s going home from evening study hall with her ridiculous pink little girl�s umbrella, holding a cigarette in her hand. When she saw me she tried to cross the street and I moved to intercept her. She dropped her cigarette and tried to zig-zag back the other way, hoping to get by me but I took her by the wrist, bringing her back to the sidewalk. Her demeanour was just priceless as she kept her head bowed down as low as she could, hoping I wouldn't be able to identify her, shaking with fear and yet giggling nervously.
'When you get to university you can smoke. Here' I said, circumnavigating our illustrious hick town with my pointing finger, 'dambae hajima, OK?'
'OK, nay, nay' she said, nodding vigorously. I could see that the lights were still in our school's staff room down the road, and the thought of hauling her back there to deal with whatever Korean teachers were still around crossed my mind. But I was half pissed and in a good mood, not to mention wreaking like cigarette smoke myself after going through a third of a pack at the hof. So I just said 'all right' and patted her on the back and sent her on her way. I know that some of the vocational HS students smoke but this was the first I saw of an academic student at my school doing it. Oh well, if I had to be at school for 15 hours when I was 17 or 18 I'd probably be lighting up right afterwards, too. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds like smoking is becoming more westernised here. Maybe in a few years there will be more women smoking than men too. |
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PimpofKorea
Joined: 09 Dec 2006
Location: Dealing in high quality imported English
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
Last night I was headed home after a group of area waygooks had our Functional Alcoholics Anonymous meeting at the local hof, and as I was walking down the street to my house saw one of my grade 3s going home from evening study hall with her ridiculous pink little girl�s umbrella, holding a cigarette in her hand. When she saw me she tried to cross the street and I moved to intercept her. She dropped her cigarette and tried to zig-zag back the other way, hoping to get by me but I took her by the wrist, bringing her back to the sidewalk. Her demeanour was just priceless as she kept her head bowed down as low as she could, hoping I wouldn't be able to identify her, shaking with fear and yet giggling nervously.
'When you get to university you can smoke. Here' I said, circumnavigating our illustrious hick town with my pointing finger, 'dambae hajima, OK?'
'OK, nay, nay' she said, nodding vigorously. I could see that the lights were still in our school's staff room down the road, and the thought of hauling her back there to deal with whatever Korean teachers were still around crossed my mind. But I was half pissed and in a good mood, not to mention wreaking like cigarette smoke myself after going through a third of a pack at the hof. So I just said 'all right' and patted her on the back and sent her on her way. I know that some of the vocational HS students smoke but this was the first I saw of an academic student at my school doing it. Oh well, if I had to be at school for 15 hours when I was 17 or 18 I'd probably be lighting up right afterwards, too. |
What are you....the smoking police??? Your just a white guy....thats it... |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 12:47 am Post subject: |
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| PimpofKorea wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
Last night I was headed home after a group of area waygooks had our Functional Alcoholics Anonymous meeting at the local hof, and as I was walking down the street to my house saw one of my grade 3s going home from evening study hall with her ridiculous pink little girl�s umbrella, holding a cigarette in her hand. When she saw me she tried to cross the street and I moved to intercept her. She dropped her cigarette and tried to zig-zag back the other way, hoping to get by me but I took her by the wrist, bringing her back to the sidewalk. Her demeanour was just priceless as she kept her head bowed down as low as she could, hoping I wouldn't be able to identify her, shaking with fear and yet giggling nervously.
'When you get to university you can smoke. Here' I said, circumnavigating our illustrious hick town with my pointing finger, 'dambae hajima, OK?'
'OK, nay, nay' she said, nodding vigorously. I could see that the lights were still in our school's staff room down the road, and the thought of hauling her back there to deal with whatever Korean teachers were still around crossed my mind. But I was half pissed and in a good mood, not to mention wreaking like cigarette smoke myself after going through a third of a pack at the hof. So I just said 'all right' and patted her on the back and sent her on her way. I know that some of the vocational HS students smoke but this was the first I saw of an academic student at my school doing it. Oh well, if I had to be at school for 15 hours when I was 17 or 18 I'd probably be lighting up right afterwards, too. |
What are you....the smoking police??? Your just a white guy....thats it... |
I'm a teacher who lives on residence at a conservative, small-town school. The school has the Korean equivalent of in loco parentis authority over the students. The school has authority over everything from what kind of hairstyle they can have to whether or not they can have a particular part-time job. The school also has rules about what the students may and may not do off-campus and you can be sure that no smoking is one of them. I'm sure she's very, very thankful she ran into me when I was semi-intoxicated and not her homeroom teacher when he or she was sober. |
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