House doctors want to non-smoking generation

A non-smoking generation is the purpose of the Amsterdam general action, in collaboration with Jellinek, 1st line Amsterdam and GGD Amsterdam.
In Amsterdam is an awful lot of smoked, says doctor and one of the initiators of the Amsterdam non-alarm Ilona Statius Muller.

"It is derived from the misery with which we as caregivers face," says Statius Muller. "Then it's already too late. There is great attention to stop smoking and that's good, but we must also deal with the question why children start smoking. Now it's fighting a running battle. "

The doctors see increase in recent years showing a slight increase in the number of smoking young adults in the city. According to the latest data from the public health service was smoking in the Group 19-34 year olds 30 percent in 2008 versus 34 percent in 2012. Therefore, they call on policy makers to take more stringent measures to prevent children from their first cigarettes.

"We give kids the wrong example. If they have a supermarket run into see them as one of the first things the tobacco display. Teachers are on the school playground to smoke, just as parents in playgrounds and along the football field. That would not be normal. "

As of this week, hang posters in waiting rooms will be shown on digischermen movies and posters are to call attention to the non-smoking generation. After the summer will schools and sports clubs on behalf of the House doctors received a letter in which up to non-smoking clubs and schoolyards.

Smoking will also be teachers invited for a visit to the family doctor to stop. Aid workers are asked to to people in conversation. "We hope to create an environment that gives rise to less smoking, because it's just so sin."

By editorial Het parool: Photo: REUTERS