Study of Adolescents' Awareness of the Effects of Smoking in Order to Increase the Effectiveness of Cancer Prevention

Abstract

In Poland and the world, cancer is a serious health problem. There are the second cause of death in total and the first cause of death before the age of 65 in Poland. The paper presents some research results concerning the understanding of the level of knowledge of adolescents about lung cancer. An attempt was made to answer the question: Do young people have basic knowledge about lung cancer? The following hypotheses were made: Students believe that they influ-ence whether they will develop lung cancer. Adolescents have a basic knowledge of lung cancer. The obtained results allowed for the formulation of conclusions. The main goal of the work is to find out about the level of knowledge of young people about lung cancer.To improve the situation of lung cancer in society, numerous social organizations and associations take part in social campaigns dedicated to all citizens, regardless of age and sex. Some postulates, the introduction of which could increase the health security of the state and eliminate some environmental threats, such as passive smoking, will be presented below. These postulates have the overarching goal of changing the model of lung cancer prevention and care in Poland. The changes should be comprehensive - from prevention (primary and secondary), through diagnostics and treatment, post-treatment care (including rehabilitation and psycho-oncological care), to observation aimed at detecting and treating complications of the disease and anti-cancer therapy as well as early detection of possible recurrence of the disease. Given that smoking is becoming a bad habit of the younger age group than the study, it would be worthwhile to expand the age range and conduct such research among children, for example, from the age of 7 years. At this age, children are more receptive to and aware of health hazards.

Peculiarities of indicators of the respiratory system in women at rest and their changes during the burning of the next cigarette

“…A significant number of scientific works are devoted to the study of functional changes in the body of male adolescents and young adults during smoking [5,7,17,22,25].…”

“…It should be noted that there are quite a number of works devoted to the study of the impact of tobacco products on the respiratory system, in particular of men (with accompanying diseases), in which the negative impact of the components of tobacco smoke on the state of individual organs and systems is noted [3,6,7,12,13,[17][18][19][21][22][23][24][25].…”

“…In particular, the tobacco industry uses various manipulative tools to attract young people to smoking [6,9]. One of the many techniques is the use of colorful logos on cigarette packs, which further encourage the purchase [2,14,23,25].…”