Research Memo 1

Hypothesis:

Why do smokers have no respect for other people?

The reason smokers have no respect for anyone besides themselves is they get the urge to smoke and then they pull out a cigarette and light it up wherever they are. They do not take the people around them into consideration and the harm that they are putting them in. Smokers are disrespectful to the people they are around by doing this. If they would just take the time to walk away from the group of people they are around or step outside rather than smoking inside it would make a big difference. I believe smokers need to have other things (whose around them and who they are harming) than getting nicotine into their system on their minds.

 

Context:

My target audience for this topic is smokers and young kids who have to live with smokers. I chose these respondents because they will be able to connect to my research topic the most and have the most helpful answers to my questions. My results are both reliable and valid because I have the correct audience for the project. Some of the answers may be baised because they were opinion questions just to see people's views on second hand smoke.

How many deaths does exposure to secondhand smoke cause a year in the U.S?	A) 10,000 - 13                   B) 50,000 -2 C) 75,000  -10                   D) 125,000 -
Which of the following are effects of secondhand smoke?	Checked one of them- 17 Checked two of them- 0 Checked three of them- 8
I secondhand smoke worse than firs hand smoke?	Yes - 15 No - 10
You breathe in 69 cancer causing chemicals when you breathe in cigarette smoke.	True - 5 False -  20
How many infants a year are killed by secondhand smoke?	Between 1,900 – 2,700 – 1 Between 50 – 100 – 20 Between 100 – 500 – 3 Between 3,000 – 3,500 – 1
Do you know you can possibly die or kill someone just from smoking cigarettes?	Yes – 10 No – 15

Data Analysis:

            My findings are exactly what I figured that I was going to end up with. People do not know the true harms of smoking around children, and how they affect everyone around them. The statement that shows this best is "You breathe in 69 cancer causing chemicals when you breathe in cigarette smoke." Five people said that this was true and twenty said it was false. In reality you do breathe in 69 cancer causing chemicals when you breathe in cigarette smoke. Fifteen people thought that you could not kill people by you smoking your own cigarettes. They may not die now but they could get a cancerous disease and die later on in life.

Conclusion:

            My hypothesis was in fact correct. Because a lot of the questions that I asked was answered incorrectly and that shows that smokers do not know the true effects of them smoking around other people.

 Follow Up:

            I will now start my hardcore research and pull out facts about secondhand smoke that people would not even realize was true about it. I want to let people know they are killing their loved ones by smoking in the house with them or smoking in the car with them. I have not changed my research question because of this, but I did change it right before this. The question that I want to research next is: How does secondhand smoke affect you differently than first hand?