Conference:
ECER 2005
Format:
Paper
Session Information
Contribution
Use of legal drugs like smoking is a serious threat to the global health and causes more death and costs for societies than the illicit drugs according to the World Health institute. The present study focuses on 14-18 year old young people´s attitudes toward legal and illicit drugs. Questionnaires were distributed to selected classes in 40 schools in post war areas in East Slavonia and Baranja region, Croatia. In total the sample of 690 respondents from a population of 20.000 youngsters. Remarkable results are that the respondents show a low awareness about risks taking legal drugs as alcohol and tobacco. In correspondence to that they also show higher use of tobacco and alcohol than for example youngsters in Sweden. The awareness about the risks with passive / second hand smoking was also extremely low . This implicates a need for deliberate information about risks with passive smoking and drug education focusing legal drugs
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