Where do our children learn to smoke?
| Authors | |
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Central European Journal of Public Health |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Hygiene |
| Keywords | smoking; children; family; intervention |
| Description | The behavioral complex of life style is affected by the attitudes to its individual components. The family has the most important influence on the childś attitudes during yearly childhood. This is the strarting point of the program "Non-smoking is a Norm ". The measurement of the effect included the differences between the children living in smoking and non-smoking environment. The study has confirmed that the majority (75%) of children are exposed to smoking parents and ohther family members. Smoking family supported availability of tobacco products for children, weakened negative attitudes to smoking and contributed the experimentation to cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking in yearly childhood. |
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