FREQUENCIES AND EVOLUTIONS OF THE SMOKING AT HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE COUNTY OF BOTOSANI
Abstract:
Smoking is nowadays one of the most outspread human habits and the toxic effects of the
tobacco on the health, although they were suspected, mentioned and sustained with more or less
convincing arguments, they were scientifically proven in the late XX century. That is the reason for
which we call the period we live now, „the era of diseases and deaths provoked by tobacco
products.”Adolescence is the age when risky behaviours appear and develop, for example smoking.The
purpose of this paper is to identify the frequency and the evolution of this behaviour, for different groups
of teenagers in the county of Botosani and was conducted in 2 study stages; the first stage was
performed for 2 classes of students in the 9th grade, at the highschool ,,Grigore Ghica-Voievod”of the
municipality Dorohoi, county of Botosani within the program Global Youth Tabacco Survey (GYTS),
with the purpose of signing the Frame Agreement for Tobacco Control(CCCT) by Romania. The second
stage of the study was conducted on a group of students from 4 highschools of the municipality of
Botosani within a wide action for the identification of the frequency and motivation of these risky
behaviours at those ages. The results of these actions were the support of some prophylaxis programs
and programs for combating tobacco use by students, which are financed by WHO and EU.
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