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23 sty 2024 · Here’s what you need to know about teen smoking, including risks, reasons, e-cigarettes, and how to help teens avoid or quit smoking.
Effective strategies to reduce youth initiation of tobacco use include federal regulation of tobacco products; significant increases in tobacco prices, including excise taxes; smokefree air laws; restrictions on tobacco advertising and promotion; restricting the availability of tobacco products to youth; mass-media public education campaigns; an...
27 maj 2021 · Emic approaches might aid understanding of how young people might become addicted, what they need to stay smoke-free, and how policies can best help and protect them. In short, to inform policies to end the tobacco epidemic, we need approaches that are emic as well as etic.
attributable to smoking varies across cancer sites (Figure 1A).4 Health consequences increase with both duration and intensity of smoking. Tobacco use in youth is an important public health issue because almost 90% of adults who smoke regularly began smoking before the age of 18; adolescents appear to be more easily addicted to nicotine.8
Strategies to prevent smoking initiation in children and adolescents are reviewed in the present position statement, with focus on interventions that can be performed in the health care setting.
19 maj 2021 · Of the estimated 608,570 deaths from cancer expected to occur in the United States in 2021, about 45% are from potentially preventable causes such as cigarette smoking, excess body weight, alcohol intake, physical inactivity, and unhealthy diet.
Medically underserved and vulnerable populations of cancer patients who smoke are very likely to benefit from using the evidence-based smoking cessation treatments identified as effective in the general population of people who smoke.
