SMOKING PREVALENCE, INTENTIONS AND KNOWLEDGE OF HEALTH RISK. RESULTS FROM A NEW SOUTH WALES SCHOOL SURVEY
作者:
Simon Chapman,
Peter Homel,
期刊:
Community Health Studies
(WILEY Available online 1987)
卷期:
Volume 11,
issue S1
页码: 29-34
ISSN:0314-9021
年代: 1987
DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1987.tb00510.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractData from a 1983 survey of 4265 school students are presented. Girls smoked more than boys in all but one age group; 45 per cent of current smokers stated they did not intend stopping; 12 per cent of non‐smokers believed that they would take it up; 67.5 per cent of students overestimated the number of people who smoke; and only 7.8 per cent of students correctly rated tobacco as the drug that causes the greatest number of deaths from a list of different recreational drugs. A case is argued for health education efforts which place greater emphasis on the health consequences of smoking than is currently fashionable in many health education effort
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