Tabagismo: definições, riscos e análise sobre os conhecimentos de alunos do Instituto Federal de Goiás, Campus Itumbiara.

Abstract

Smoking is an epidemic disease that kills more than 8 million people every year, and is currently the biggest cause of what statistics call “preventable deaths” in the world. However, despite the many harmful effects already scientifically proven and approached in so many years by anti-smoking campaigns, we have been faced to the emergence of new devices for smoking, known as “narguiles” and “electronic cigarettes”, which bring the notion of being less harmful to the health of its users when compared to cigarettes, thus attracting mainly young people. Therefore, the present work aims to verify and analyse in a quali-quantitative approach through questionnaires, the knowledge about smoking of the students of the IFG-Campus Itumbiara. The results obtained demonstrate that there is a relevant understanding of some concepts, although others are not well established, evidencing the need, especially in the school environment, for the development of projects, seminars, conversation circles and interdisciplinary works that contribute to a solid knowledge about the damages caused by tobacco dependence.