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The publishing of an organic collection of pieces of news on tobacco smoking, addressed mainly to our teenaged students, it is to be meant an important step within the project "Tobacco-free Bologna".
We can consider it scientifically reliable thanks to the help fro various organisations but not so boring thanks to the numerous bubbles, meant to stress the messages. |
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We think that persuading can be more effective than warning and sermonizing: we believe that a constant and hard work can allow people to get aware of the seriousness of the problem.
Tobacco smoking is the best known health risky factor, but in spite of the lot of scientifically reliable pieces of information we can get, the awareness of the seriousness of the problem still sounds poor.
We believe that our prioority duty is to help young people to face and to resist the psycosocial pressures whether hidden or manifest, of behaviour models in favour of smoking.
The project "Tobacco-free Bologna" relies on three guiding lines: to inform and to educate the population in general and some of its section in particular; to support some deeper political and managing measures, both local and national, mainly appointed to "make" and preserve some areas where smoking is forbidden; to carry on scientific epidemiologic researches, to value and to test plans, to start courses to make smokers lose their bad habit and to train operators.
The main aims of our project are: to take care that people don't get smoke addicts, to help smokers to lose their bad habit and to prevent the effects of passive smoking.
As Bologna has joined the "Healthy Cities" European Network, supported by the W.H.O., our project is, by full right, a share of the international committment of the Multicity Action Plan to "create" tobacco-free healthy cities.
The member cities must work together to make, to go into and to spread common plans in order to fight nicotinism, by getting more and more knowledge, comparing different experiences in favour of a tobacco-free Europe.
The team is asked to plan and to connect all the initiatives and cooperations, in order to assure a common working method, though with its own peculiarities. All the members agree that the most important step to take is to awaken the young generation to the so many smoking risks.
We believe that our paper will provide the teachers with some useful hints, mainlyconnected with smoke banning to safeguard their students' health, as long as they work together. Our team, along with the provincial education Office in Bologna, will be very pleased to clear any further question our readers may put. Our main goal is to turn smokers into non-smokers and to discourage any ppotential smoker: uor boys and girls should be asked not to smoke, they themselves should say: "I do not smoke". Only then we can say we have been successful and the W.H.O.'s goal of living a better life in a smoke free environment in the next centuries, will be reached. |
