Childhood smoking prevention in Australia
Introduction
Australia is one of the countries which has a decent result in reducing children smoking through implementing World Health Organization Framework on Tobacco Control strategies to decrease tobacco sales(1).However, the childhood smoking situation cannot be ignored. Adolescents who are exposed to smoking areas in their early ages are more likely to become smoker afterwards, so protecting children from smoking environment is important to reduce smoking(2).A survey analyses the data from the 1999 Australian School Students Alcohol and Drug Survey and finds that 14 years old is the most important time for teenage to elevate their tobacco use amount(3). This study also shows that if policy-makers …show more content…
One is that it is common sense that children usually lack self-adjustment and easily suffer from mental health. Mental health such as depression and anxiety will increase the risk of smoking in adolescents (5). There is another Australian birth cohort study which also gives the similar conclusion that childhood psychopathology may be used to predict smoking status and make contributions to adolescent smoking prevention(6).The other factor is that children are at the age when they need to be educated how to judge good from bad thing. A qualitative design finds that adolescent smokers have vague cognition on smoking addiction and their dependence degree of tobacco, so it is significant to educate children about never trying smoking and how to define the degree of addition(7). Therefore, the child is a group of the susceptible population, it is important to help them be away from …show more content…
If tobacco control policies, such as increasing tobacco prices and banned indoor smoking which are usually considered adult as a target group, can be well-implement, not only can decrease adulthood smoking consumption but also have influences on reducing adolescent smoking(24). For example, the Australian Tobacco plain packaging policy can prevent young people from smoking because the tobacco packaging usually with attractive colour to seduce young people to consume them(25).Banning smoking in cars with children 2006 policy is well-supported by the public in order to protect children’s health and decrease chances to exposed environment(26).
Direct target policies
Directly targeted children policies can be more straightforward than indirect policies. For example, removing tobacco products from point-of-sale around the school has an immediate impact on decreasing adolescent’s cigarette consumption (27). The intervention of controlling tobacco retail sale has not only protects children from smoking immediately but also has a sustainable effect (28).Therefore, both indirectly and directly target children policies are need to control tobacco industry to do harm to
Introduction
Australia is one of the countries which has a decent result in reducing children smoking through implementing World Health Organization Framework on Tobacco Control strategies to decrease tobacco sales(1).However, the childhood smoking situation cannot be ignored. Adolescents who are exposed to smoking areas in their early ages are more likely to become smoker afterwards, so protecting children from smoking environment is important to reduce smoking(2).A survey analyses the data from the 1999 Australian School Students Alcohol and Drug Survey and finds that 14 years old is the most important time for teenage to elevate their tobacco use amount(3). This study also shows that if policy-makers …show more content…
One is that it is common sense that children usually lack self-adjustment and easily suffer from mental health. Mental health such as depression and anxiety will increase the risk of smoking in adolescents (5). There is another Australian birth cohort study which also gives the similar conclusion that childhood psychopathology may be used to predict smoking status and make contributions to adolescent smoking prevention(6).The other factor is that children are at the age when they need to be educated how to judge good from bad thing. A qualitative design finds that adolescent smokers have vague cognition on smoking addiction and their dependence degree of tobacco, so it is significant to educate children about never trying smoking and how to define the degree of addition(7). Therefore, the child is a group of the susceptible population, it is important to help them be away from …show more content…
If tobacco control policies, such as increasing tobacco prices and banned indoor smoking which are usually considered adult as a target group, can be well-implement, not only can decrease adulthood smoking consumption but also have influences on reducing adolescent smoking(24). For example, the Australian Tobacco plain packaging policy can prevent young people from smoking because the tobacco packaging usually with attractive colour to seduce young people to consume them(25).Banning smoking in cars with children 2006 policy is well-supported by the public in order to protect children’s health and decrease chances to exposed environment(26).
Direct target policies
Directly targeted children policies can be more straightforward than indirect policies. For example, removing tobacco products from point-of-sale around the school has an immediate impact on decreasing adolescent’s cigarette consumption (27). The intervention of controlling tobacco retail sale has not only protects children from smoking immediately but also has a sustainable effect (28).Therefore, both indirectly and directly target children policies are need to control tobacco industry to do harm to