Source: Annual Congress 2002 - Smoking habits in teenagers
Disease area: Paediatric lung diseases

Abstract

Smoking is one of risk factors in acute, chronic and malignant disease. The rising problem is from day to day the larger number of teenagers-smokers. The family has a significant (important) influence that appearance. By this questionnaire, we have already examined connection between parents-smokers and their children. From 675 teenagers included by this qestionnaire, (age 14-18), 136 (20,1% are smokers, but 539 (79,9%) are nonsmokers.

	father smoker	mother smoker	both parents smoker	parents nonsmoker
teenagers	26	32	61	17
smokers	19%	23,5%	45%	12,5%
teenagers	112	61	84	282
nonsmokers	21%	11%	16%	52%

The chart shows that teenagers smokers in high percent (45%) come from the families where both parents are smokers. Also we can see that cosiderable higher percent of parents nonsmokers (52%) have the teenagers nonsmokers. Relative high percent of smoking is in direct connection with low social-economic status of researched environment. Health-educational work in schools has to include a grat number of parents who must be reminded that parents smokers are bringing up children smokers.

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D. KovanoviĆ, D. ŠuluburiĆ, D. ŽivadinoviĆ, T. ŠuluburiĆ (Guca, Cacak, Yugoslavia). Negative influence of parent-smokers on their children-future smokers. Eur Respir J 2002; 20: Suppl. 38, 896

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