survey project

The subject of smoking has recently become a hot topic in classrooms and discussion groups across the country. As future U.S college students we wanted to find what other students thought about smoking. In our report, my partners Majed, Alya, Atiqa, and i wanted to investigate what people in Southern Illinois and what students at southern Illinois University Carbondale thought about the topic. We formulated the hypothesis" student who have parents who smoke are more likely to start smoking" we then created a survey to interview our respondents about the topic. To our surprise, not only were most of our respondent in accordance with the hypothesis, but a number of articles also support our initial ideas. My groups and I conducted our survey of 47 students (33 mails – 14 females) at SIU–Carbondale; also they were 18 – 30 years old. In addition, 33of the people who answered were Single; 11 of the people who answered were Married; 4 was from Mexico; 1 was from Tunisia; 10 were Hispanic; 6 were from Asia; 3 were from Egypt; 1 were from Saudi Arabia; and 2 was from Morocco and the rest from American.
I learned many things, for example the smoking is very dangerous to all humans. Own survey found that the majority of Americans a greed that smoking is very harmful. Also, our results support the same idea with American society. I was interested that the number of smokers is increasing year by year. We had a image that smoking is very hard and run up against some problems such as cancer, heart disease, and high blood pressure. We felt some smokers have enough opportunity to live in a new life. However, they must quit smoking. We wish that our survey could be harmful about understating our hypothesis. The following result we hope to discuss how to quit smoking.
Our survey was intended to see what Americans thought of smokers. We believed that most Americans believed that smokers are harmful for people.  We asked some Americans if they had tried a cigarette (even one), at what age you tried your first cigarette. Nineteen people said they have never tried a cigarette. Thirteen said from age fourteen or under.  Eight said between fifteen to eighteen. And seven said over eighteen.We then asked Americans who told you not to smoke cigarettes. Thirty two said parents. Three said the old brothers. One said teacher. Thirteen said no one. Finally, we asked Americans if they thought that smoking should be reduced in the United States. Eleven said that smokers should be reduced in America; ten said they should not be reduced, while nine said that they did not know if they should be reduced in America. We think that some of the reason for this is the news coverage about the smoking. We believe that once the media coverage becomes better, Americans will view smokers as more positive. If we had to advise someone else doing this type of project, we would tell them to make sure to ask different types of people. Also, they should not be afraid to approach people since most do not mind taking the survey