[Young people and smoking].
Within the fight against smoking a questionnaire was made among schoolchildren of the Secondary Medical School in Zrenjanin in the period from March 1-8, 1988. The anonymous questionnaire dealt both with the schoolchildren's attitude toward smoking and the distribution of this habit among them. It comprised a total of 207 schoolchildren from the I and IV grade. The questions were aimed at the basic facts about smoking: whether they smoke, how many cigarettes they smoke daily and from when, how much pocket-money they get, their opinion about smoking as the social phenomenon and how much they know about harmful effects of smoking. Out of 119 schoolchildren from the I grade 8 were smokers (7 girls and 1 boy) which made 6.7% while out of 88 schoolchildren from the IV grade (83 girls and 5 boys) 46 (52%) were smokers. Which factors contributed to the increase in the number of smokers from I to IV grade, especially when we know that girls accounted for 94%? These facts were discussed in this paper in detail.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015022:Yugoslavia
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