De la Rosa MV, Vasquez MEE, Mauricio GJF, Alcaraz OV, Quiroz PC

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Introduction: Tobacco addiction has been increasing in adolescents, with a starting age 12-14 years old.
Objective: To identify cultural and family factors related to tobacco smoking, resides knowledge on complications, health risks and perspectives to tobacco consumption among basic school age children.
Design: Coss sectional community survey in schools frame of reference. Children population in basic education. Participants, children 6 to 12 years old, primary education with school grade according to age, interventions: prestructured questionnaire exploring smoking habits in relatives and socio-familiar environment, perspective for consumption, knowledge about health risk and complications due to tobacco consumption.
Results: 434 students were interviewed, 45% of uncles, 42% of fathers and 15 of mothers are smokers. 94.23% said that and “adequate” age to start tobacco use was 18 years old, 41 (9.44%) said they are going to smoke when they grow up, 82.9% have seen tobacco (cigarettes) TV ads, 65.4% have received inhome information on tobacco addiction, 90.8% affirms that tobacco smoke is harmful, 65.2% that it produces respiratory disease, 61.5% heart disease.
Conclusions: In this study was observed the existence of family habits that may influence family members in the development of tabaquism. The knowledge of health risks are important, the majority thinks that tobacco smoke is bad for the health of different organs and systems. It’s necessary a direct intervention in this school stage to cut the tobacco use epidemics.