Journal vol.9 no.1 abstract4 of The Japan Health Care Dental Association

The Journal of The Japan Health Care Dental Association Vol.9 No.1, 2007
abstract

Seiichi Sugiyama, DDS

Most of smokers have their first taste of smoking when they were in the junior high school. Accordingly, the right knowledge on the health hazard caused by smoking has to be educated repeatedly in the school. "Organization to think about problem over smoking, Chiba" (TMKC: represented by Kazunori Nakakuki in 2006 and Mitsuoko Otani in 2007) was entrusted of the delivery classroom business for smoking prevention by Positive Health Supporting Section, Health Welfare division, Chiba Prefecture and had the smoking prevention classrooms at the local schools. I had smoking prevention classrooms for 758 school pupils at 8 schools. For the pupils of upper grade (4th to 6th grade), many pictures and videos were used to commentate on the harmful effect of smoking. The questionnaire survey was conducted before and after the classrooms to assess the change in the conscious mind of the pupils. For the pupils of lower grade (1st to 3rd grade), the harmful effect of smoking was told with illustrated picture cards and the explanation followed. The questionnaire survey for the pupils of upper grades revealed that 58% of pupils had a smoker or smokers in their home and a majority were accessible to cigarette. To the question "Do you think to have a cigarette when you grow up?" before the classrooms. 25% of pupils answered "Don't know" or "Yes"."Have a cigarette" and "Yes" dropped to 7% after the classrooms.