PASTORAL

CYCLE BY:
CHRISMAIN BELL M. RIVAS
VIC AMACIO
ATENEO DE DAVAO UNIVERSITY
ARROP SSOCIAL FORMATION
EXPERIENCE
Undeniably, smoking is hard to break the habit of some Filipinos in all communities. According to the Department of Health
Sciences, the Philippines has one of the highest cigarette smoking rates in Southeast Asia. Approximately 51% of males
and 8% of females 15 years and older are current smokers. Besides that, around 20,000 Filipinos die each year from
smoking-related diseases, and 200,000 more will be sick due to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases related to smoking
in their productive years. If this problem would still foster, this will pose a massive obstruction in our society, especially now
that smokers are more vulnerable and at risk of contracting COVID-19. Thus, we need to educate the people about this as
this concerns and impact everyone in our community.

ATENEO DE DAVAO UNIVERSITY

ARROPE SOCIAL FORMATION
 ANALYSIS
The majority of smokers starting when they were teenagers. Those that have smoking buddies and parents are more likely to begin
smoking than those who do not. Some teens claim that they "only wanted to try it" or that smoking was "interesting."

The cigarette industry's advertisements, price cuts, and other campaigns for its drugs have a significant impact on our culture. Every
year, the tobacco industry costs billions of dollars to produce and sell commercials that represent smoking as exciting, attractive, and healthy.
Tobacco usage is often shown in computer games, online, and on television. Films depicting people smoking have also had a significant
impact.

The e-cigarette and other high-tech, trendy electronic "vaping" gadgets are a younger influence on tobacco use. These machines,
which are often mistaken as safe and more accessible to access to use than conventional tobacco products, are a means for potential
consumers to learn how to inhale and become addicted to nicotine, which will train them for smoking.

Anyone who begins using cigarettes has the potential to become addicted to nicotine. According to studies, smoking is more likely to
become a disease during the adolescent years. The younger you start smoking, the more likely you are to become addicted to nicotine.

According to the 2014 Surgeon General's Report (SGR), almost 9 out of 10 people who smoke began smoking by the age of 18, and
nearly all began by the age of 26. According to the survey, about three out of every four high school smokers will become adult smokers –
even though they plan to quit in a few years.
THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION.

The teaching is relevant to our topic's life and

dignity, call to family, community, and
participation and care for God creation. Our
case supports the catholic social teachings
because they deny the people live and have
a great relationship with God. This teaching
speaks that we people have the freedom to
decide to fulfil our duties; it is either morally
right or wrong. Lastly, there is no God in this
issue; it all goes down to us humans what we
were doing in our lives and not pointing out
someone in our doing in this world.
RESPONSE:

In our chosen topic it starts at home; children act on

what they see in adults, making them curious because, unlike a
well-grown man, the children and teens have very high curiosity
in theire body so that by educating them what the effects of
smoking in our life they have that outline in there mind that
smoking is a terrible habit then follow up in school by the time
children grow up there more likely spend more time in schoole
rathere than in-home the best-case scenario is raising
awareness of how bad habit is smoking by conducting seminars
at some point, make them realize what smoking is harmful in
health. Furthermore, lastly, the government should make a law
about the rising children and teen smoking, and they should
copy the Law implemented in the United States of America that
they can only buy at the age of 21 and above and also the
government also must be more careful to the people and not
only for the benefit to the company because of tax.