Chapter 3 - Effective Educational Strategies to Prevent Tobacco Use Among Young People
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Shorter-Term Follow-Up of School-Based Programs 65 Project Towards No Tobacco Use 65 Know Your Body 65 Project SHOUT 68 Longer-Term Follow-Up of School-Based Programs 69 Life Skills Training Program 69 Minnesota Smoking Prevention Program 70 Waterloo Smoking Projects 70 Project ALERT 71 Summary of Recent School-Based Research Studies 72 Research on Multifaceted Programs 73 Minnesota Heart Health Program: Class of 1989 Study 74 Midwestern Prevention Project 75 University of Vermont School and Mass Media Project 76 Observations on Research on Multifaceted Educational Programs 77
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Tobacco use patterns, knowledge, attitudes towards tobacco and availability of tobacco control training among school personnel from a rural area in Poland
BACKGROUND Tobacco-free school environment as well as non-smoking teachers and school personnel provide positive role models for children and young people. In Poland, smoking should be banned in colleges, schools, educational establishments and educational care facilities. However, for the existing law to be effective, awareness of all people in school curriculum and enforcement of the law are ...
متن کاملGuidelines for school health programs to prevent tobacco use and addiction. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.).
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. Most daily smokers (82%) began smoking before age 18, and more than 3,000 young persons begin smoking each day. School programs designed to prevent tobacco use could become one of the most effective strategies available to reduce U.S. tobacco use. The following guidelines summarize school-based strategies most likely to be effect...
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Tobacco use continues to be the leading preventable cause of premature death in the United States, killing over 430,000 people annually. Tobacco initiation and use among youth remains a significant public health concern. Despite declines in U.S. youth tobacco use in recent years, state and national survey results are still cause for alarm. Although traditional school-based curricular programs a...
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Background: Sri Lanka became a signatory to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in September 2003 and ratified in November 2003. Aiming to reduce tobacco burden in Sri Lanka, National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol Act [NATA] No. 27 was authorized in 2006. The objective of this study was to assess the behavioral changes related to tobacco use among adolescents and young adults fol...
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Introduction Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable illness and deaths in Georgia. About 10.1% of deaths among adults in Georgia are linked to smoking related illnesses. Most first use of cigarettes occurs by age 18 (87%), with nearly all-first use by 26 years of age (98%). Although cigarette smoking has declined significantly since 1964, very large disparities in tobacco use remain ac...
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تاریخ انتشار 2000