title: [Smoking: results of an interventation for health education of young workers attending to the SPISAL Service for pre-employment medical examination].
abstract: Young people who start smoking are constantly increasing and the age of initiation has decreased. This work presents the results of a specific health education programme on smoking that was carried out for a group of 804 young apprentices who came to the Occupational Health Units in Belluno for a check on work fitness. The objective is to induce young non-smoking apprentices to continue as such and smokers to give up smoking. After two years, a telephone follow-up was carried out to see if the smoking habit has changed. The average age of the group was 19 years and the percentage of smokers was 34%; after two years the percentage of smokers was 29.5%. Then, the percentage of smokers has fallen and the percentage of ex smokers has increased, because smokers became non-smokers during the period of observation. This results show the effectiveness of health programme on smoking directed to young apprentices already demonstrated by a previous study and confirm the withdraw rates obtained by counselling methods. Moreover, this study stressed the role of Occupational Health Units in prevention programmes addressed to the young apprentices during work fitness check.
authors.affiliation: Servizio di Prevenzione Igiene e Sicurezza negli Ambienti di Lavoro ULSS n. 1 Belluno Veneto.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marcolina
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: De Marzo
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: D'Isep
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016272:Occupational Health; D000074606:Smoking Prevention