ill smoke. I think this because I feel the childs age plays a bigger role then the parents and other key factors as well. But I do think that one of the key factors that plays a big role in whether a parent allows it or goes against it. The dependent variable is if the child pursues smoking, and the independent as the parent already smokes.In part two, I hope to show that there is no correlation to whether a parent smokes has nothing to with is more so then the age of the child does. A study done by Bauman would disagree with my standings and I hope use my own findings to prove that the age of the child plays a greater factor. For instance in his findings he showed that children at the age of 12-14 were twice as likely to smoke but even contradicts himself in the report when parents who had once smoke were three times more likely to smoke. In that case u have a household that is not smoking anymore but has a higher chance of children smoking. To me that goes to prove that though parents may influence a childs habits I feel is has less to do with a learned behavior and more so with an age issue. In the 1994 Youth Smoking Survey it agreed with me in showing how 31% of 10-14 year olds and only 10% of 15-19 year olds believed parental smoking was one reason why people their age started smoking. I think its easy to say that parents are to blame when your younger because when in reality peer-pressure and society plays a bigger role. Children at that younger age can justify their smoking by saying well mom or dad smoke so thats why I do. And since they do it why cant I. Part Two.This is going to show how I conducted my study. First of all I needed to identify my target population. I decide to study children between the ages of 9 to 20. Since I work at a facility where tour groups came through and mainly consisted of children between those ages. The Unit of Analysis what the children between those ages that smoked. If this was ...
