随风而逝：青少年吸烟回顾
2009/07/30
在英国有四分之一的成年人是经常吸烟者，他们大部分在十几岁时就开始吸烟了，十几岁的吸烟者，尤其是女性，他们吸烟的数量和成为经常性吸烟者的数量将增加，影响十几岁的人去吸烟的主要因素有同龄人的压力，家成员中有人吸烟和经历。尼古丁依赖能发展非常迅速。英国很少直接关注帮助青少年改变这一恶习。
全球的数据更是触目惊心，12.5亿烟民有8亿在发展中国家。在英国政府立法，限制烟草广告和实施教育计划，在不久的将来可以改善这一情况。但是仍然对每年400万人因吸烟死亡认识很少，缺乏足够的关注给予青少年和年轻家庭，把试图他们戒烟放在首位。
全球的数据更是触目惊心，12.5亿烟民有8亿在发展中国家。在英国政府立法，限制烟草广告和实施教育计划，在不久的将来可以改善这一情况。但是仍然对每年400万人因吸烟死亡认识很少，缺乏足够的关注给予青少年和年轻家庭，把试图他们戒烟放在首位。
（刘超武编译 刘国梁审校）
"Blowing in the wind": a review of teenage smoking.
Lenney W, Enderby B.
University Hospital of North Staffordshire and Keele University, Stoke-on-Tent ST4 6QG, UK. w.lenney46@hotmail.co.uk
One quarter of all adults in the UK are regular smokers, the vast majority having started smoking in their teens. Teenage smoking, especially in females, continues to increase both as regards the numbers of cigarettes smoked and the numbers of teenagers who regularly smoke. The main factors influencing teenagers to smoke are peer pressure, family members who smoke and experimentation. Nicotine dependence can develop very quickly and in the UK little attention has been directed towards helping teenagers break the habit. In global terms the figures are frightening. Of the 1.25 billion smokers, 800 million live in developing countries. In the UK, government legislation, restrictions on advertising and educational programmes may improve the situation in the near future but there is still little recognition that smoking is responsible for 4 million deaths each year worldwide and insufficient attention has been paid to children and young families to try to prevent children and teenagers from smoking in the first place.
PMID: 17768151 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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