A history of marijuana smoking was common in young adults with sickle cell disease. Usage increased between 2000 and 2004, and was seldom for medicinal purposes.
The prevalence of tobacco smoking is high among physicians in Turkey and this may compromise their role in tobacco control programmes.
ABSTRACT
Background: The aim of this study was to determine the epidemiology of smoking among physicians and to describe their socio-demographic characteristics.
Tobacco control efforts presently focus on late adolescence and adulthood. The intervention in
children aged 9 – 11 years reduced experimental smoking by 87% at US$2 per child, cost-effectiveness akin to immunization.