risk and protective factors

Question 1

what are two risk factors of smoking

Answer 1

1. home environemnt if parents smoke it makes child view smoking as a normalised behaviour and make be a genetic influence from parents
2. easy acces from an adults making it easy to experiment with smoking and more of a habit

Question 2

what are 2 protective factors

Answer 2

1. being around people who dont smoke as they wont encourage you to participate in the behaviour as 80% of youth thta start smoking do it because of peer influence
2. being health literate allows an individual to be aware of the harm of smoking