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1 maj 2016 · Health care professionals have key responsibilities in preventing tobacco use among youth and their families, and need to know more about effective smoking prevention and cessation...
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.
preventing youth tobacco use is key to prevent unnecessary death and disease in the United States. While committed to reducing tobacco consumption broadly, APHA is especially concerned about e-cigarette use in young adults.
TOBACCO USE AMONG YOUTH. 12.6% (1,970,000) of high school students reported current use of any tobacco product (cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, hookah, nicotine pouches, heated tobacco products, pipe tobacco, and/or bidis).
Banning point-of-sale displays is a powerful tool for reducing the attractiveness of tobacco products to young people and, following its success, a number of countries – France, Ireland and the United Kingdom – are moving ahead with the introduction of plain packaging.
Info & Metrics. PDF. The most important way to stop the pandemic of smoking would be to stop the influx of new smokers i.e. mainly teenagers. When youngsters aged 13–14 yrs try their first cigarette, most of them are not aware of the possible risk they are exposed to.
TEENAGERS AND SMOKING. WHAT ARE THE SMOKING RATES AMONGST TEENAGERS? The latest research shows that in 2011 only four in every one hundred (4%) Australian school students had smoked more than 100 cigarettes in their lives.1 One per cent of 12-year-olds and 15% of 17-year-olds had smoked in the previous week.1.
