Smoking Habits of Children Institutionalized in Family Care Homes in Mures and Harghita County

Background: Smoking is a problem of the modern world and annually produces more victims, and due to ignorance and lack of health education in our country the disease diagnosis is made at an advanced stage. Many studies show that, young people aged between 10 and 18 are smokers and start smoking at a...

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Main Authors: Lorand Ferencz, Hajnal Finta, Lorand Schmidt, Iosif Balint, Valentin Nadasan, Zoltan Abram
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2015-09-01
Series:Acta Medica Marisiensis
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/amma-2015-0042
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Summary:Background: Smoking is a problem of the modern world and annually produces more victims, and due to ignorance and lack of health education in our country the disease diagnosis is made at an advanced stage. Many studies show that, young people aged between 10 and 18 are smokers and start smoking at an increasingly early age.
ISSN:2247-6113