Second hand smoke (SHS) exposure in children. An evaluation of a preventative measure.

Aims: To evaluate the effectiveness of the preventative programme "Smoke-free Homes" undertaken in 4th year children and their parents or guardians, aiming to reduce children's exposure to second hand smoke (SHS) in the home.

Material And Methods: This was a pre- and post-test pre-experimental study, in students from 32 Braga district primary schools 2007/08. A self-administered and structured questionnaire was given out to 795 students in the classroom before and after the programme.

Erlotinib as an alternative treatment for NSCLC. Case Report.

Introduction: Erlotinib is an approved treatment for NSCLC locally advanced or with metastases, after failure of initial chemotherapy. The authors present a NSCLC clinical case of great clinical and imaging improvement, with no drug-induced toxicity observed, after treatment with erlotinib.

Case Presentation: A 76-year-old woman, never-smoker, had been diagnosed for lung adenocarcinoma, through thoracoscopy, after presenting a large-volume pleural effusion.

[Indoor air pollution caused by cigarette smoke in public places in Portugal].

Objective: There have been few studies investigating the level of cigarette smoke pollution to which people in several public and private places are exposed. The purpose of this study was to quantify the level of air pollution produced by cigarette smoking in workplaces and leisure settings.

Methods: The study was carried out in Braga, Portugal, in 2005.

Smoking trends in Portuguese school-aged children and approaches for a control--an analysis based on the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) data.

While smoking has negative health consequences for children and adolescents, the major risk of smoking onset by these age groups is tobacco dependence, in most cases for the rest of their lives, which can later lead to the suffering of diseases related to smoking. This fact shows the importance of smoking prevention in teens to avoid the negative health, economic and environmental effects related to smoking. Although Portugal does not have a National Smoking Prevention Programme, some schools have developed prevention campaigns to control the spread of the tobacco epidemic.

[The global smoking prevention programme of Braga].

In spite of its negative impacts on health, in the society, in the economy and in the environment, smoking is a behaviour spread national and internationally. The data collected in 1999 by the Health National Inquire about smoking prevalence in people from 15 and over, in Portugal mainland, show that 29.3% of men and around 7.