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9 wrz 2024 · Cigarette smoking during childhood and adolescence causes significant health problems among young people, including an increase in the number and severity of respiratory illnesses, decreased physical fitness and potential effects on lung growth and function. 1.
17 kwi 2023 · This policy statement accompanies the clinical report and technical report on protecting children and adolescents from tobacco and nicotine. 1,2 It builds on, strengthens, and expands American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommendations from the 2015 policy statement. 3 Although many evidence-based recommendations from the 2015 policy statement ...
We provide the facts about smoking, vaping, nicotine, and the tobacco industry. We engage individuals and groups to make change in their communities, innovate ways to end nicotine addiction, and join forces with collaborators committed to preventing youth and young adult nicotine addiction and empowering quitting for all.
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With funds from the Bloomberg Initiative, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids jointly manages a grants program with the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. The program supports projects to develop and deliver high-impact, evidence-based tobacco control interventions.
17 kwi 2023 · The AAP clinical report on health disparities in tobacco use and exposure details the key factors and structural barriers that drive some youth from communities that have historically experienced high levels of discrimination and stigma to initiate and use tobacco at disproportionately high rates. 17 Several studies, for example, have ...
20 mar 2019 · The Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute is supporting investigators to research the effects of e-cigarettes on the brain and body and to provide resources aimed at preventing middle and high school students’ use of tobacco and nicotine.
