2024-06-03 15:27:46
The scientific employees of the Middle for Dependancy Prevention and Psychosocial Well being Promotion “Schedia” adapts the smoking prevention technique to the information generated by younger folks’s flip to e-cigarettes, in an effort to dispel the myths that contribute to the recognition of vaping.
“From the analysis, it doesn’t appear to be the case that it’s much less dangerous to well being and it is usually one of many strategic objectives of the “Plan” to take care of the prevention of e-cigarettes as effectively”, emphasised the sociologist Pola Komninou, a member of the Middle’s scientific workforce Prevention, noting the danger that the promotion of e-cigarettes to kids and adolescents might reinforce the message that smoking just isn’t harmful, rising the danger of nicotine dependancy.
Right now, World No Tobacco Day, “Shedia” carried out an motion to tell and lift public consciousness of the dangerous results of tobacco use, but in addition of the advantages of quitting smoking. The employees of “Schedia” was on the pedestrian road of Papadopoulou, exterior the Kamperio Basis the place it’s housed, and distributed leaflets, informing the residents in regards to the well being dangers related to the usage of tobacco, and about some great benefits of a life with out cigarettes.
Mrs. Komninou described the message “Shield kids from the interference of the tobacco trade” of this 12 months’s World Day as notably apt, as, as she identified, it focuses on a really vital situation, that of promoting, promotion, promotion of smoking and the straightforward , nearly unhindered entry of younger folks to tobacco merchandise. “It’s precisely these causes and these ages that the applications and actions of the “Plan” and the 72 Prevention Facilities all through the nation are aimed toward. These ages have neither the filters nor these defenses that will enable them to efficiently resist this kind of marketing campaign, which is why all efforts are targeted on prevention,” he harassed.
He additionally referred to latest knowledge, which present that worldwide we’ve a lower in people who smoke. “We now have 19 million fewer people who smoke within the final two to 3 years, with an issue with feminine people who smoke in some elements of Europe. In Greece, round 45% of scholars appear to smoke typical or digital cigarettes, which is regularly consolidating its place as the most well-liked product of this kind amongst these ages. The constructive factor is that within the Prefecture of Ioannina, persistently and over time, the researches of the Nationwide Middle for Documentation and Info present that we’ve the bottom charges amongst youngsters in the usage of not solely tobacco, but in addition medication and alcohol, which for us is successful. We really feel that we’ve successfully contributed to exhibiting as a area these diminished charges of substance use at these ages,” he famous.
“We may be completely happy, unhappy, offended, fall in love and all this with out holding a cigarette in our hand”, was the message that the treasurer wished to ship to the Board of Administrators. of the Prevention Middle “Plan” Anthi Mastakas, including that the “Plan” is current, “regardless of the unlucky considered the central state to abolish the Prevention Facilities, formulated on the finish of the earlier 12 months”. Mrs. Mastaka expressed the hope that such a thought won’t be accomplished and concluded, saying characteristically: “The message that the “Plan” and its board of administrators have to offer is that the Prevention Facilities, with their a few years of presence in neighborhood, have cemented their place on the earth’s consciousness and that if the central state cares about dependancy prevention, which our view is that it does, what it’ll find yourself doing just isn’t selling prevention in a impersonal, central construction, however to strengthen the native Prevention Facilities, primarily with employees, but in addition by increasing their powers”.