title: Campaigns against smoking: compliance and results.
abstract: Smoking has become a true epidemic that interests a lot of people in the world. The antismoking programmes are at these moments the most important strategy to prevent lung cancer and cardiovascular diseases. This article analyses the compliance and the results of the antismoking campaigns in the world. Data show the long term efficacy of school based smoking prevention programmes and underline their importance even if the methodologies can be different in the various countries. Other data show that the percentage of young smokers is increasing during the last three years; for this reason it is necessary to implement everywhere new programmes against smoking.
authors.affiliation: Lega Italiana per la Lotta Contro i Tumori, Genova.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Arciti
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pistone
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Persici
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gallo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Barbieri
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Santi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010349:Patient Compliance; D016540:Smoking Cessation