[First tobacco consumption in children].
From 1436 pupils in North-Switzerland 9% of the boys and 3% of the girls smoked their first cigarette within or before the age of six years. 32% of these first cigarettes were smoked in woods or parks. 37% on streets, 31% on other places. 25% of the first cigarettes were stolen, not bought. 50% of all these children remembered to have a headache, vomitying or a stomach-ache after smoking the first cigarette. The boys began to smoke daily at the age of 13, the girls at the age of 14.
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013557:Switzerland
Der Beginn des Tabakkonsums bei Kindern