World Health Organization Fact Sheet, Year 2006, Volume 309: Progress in Scaling Up Access to HIV Treatment in Low and Middle-Income Countries, June 2006

By World Health Organization

Book Id: WPLBN0000172156
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	World Health Organization Fact Sheet, Year 2006, Volume 309: Progress in Scaling Up Access to HIV Treatment in Low and Middle-Income Countries, June 2006
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


Citation APA MLA Chicago Organization, W. H. (n.d.). World Health Organization Fact Sheet, Year 2006, Volume 309. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
This booklet is intended to provide guidelines which can assist in reducing the uptake and prevalence of smoking among young people. Its purpose is to help the reader through the morass of data and research findings in this field, highlighting whatever has proved to be relevant or successful. It is hoped everyone will be able to select methods appropriate to their country and circumstances quickly and easily on the basis of other people's experience without needing to re-invent old ideas. Readers will probably know that smoking is the greatest known cause of disease and premature death in Europe. Efforts to eliminate this problem must start with preventing children from starting smoking. Where children have already started smoking or are experimenting, these efforts must also include encouraging and helping them to stop.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS Pag.e . Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Author's preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v 1 Introductiori . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sources of information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Smoking among young people in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3 Why do young people smoke? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Becoming a smoker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Different influences at different ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Influencing decisions on smoking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 4 Action to reduce smoking among young people . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Smoking education programmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Legislation to reduce smoking among young people . . . . . . . . . . 34 5 Reducing smoking among young people in Europe . . . . . . . . . . 39 Ten Recommendations for action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Recommendations for action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 6 Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Information on smoking prevalence from individual countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 7 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 8 Selected Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55