[Measures in the campaign against smoking and their efficacy according to the results of a 3-year observation under the conditions of a district polyclinic].

Examination of 4185 men aged 30 to 59 years, carried out within the framework of investigations into multifactorial prevention of coronary heart disease enabled one to establish that the number of tobacco-smokers among that group men amounts to 45.1%. The percentage of tobacco-smokers appreciably decreases with age. Every second tobacco-smoker starts smoking at the age of 15 to 25 years and smokers out up to 20 and over cigarettes a day. It has been established that 86% of the tobacco-smokers have been smoking for more than 20 years, which allows attributing them to a group of persons suffering from stage III-IV tobacco-smoking, needing therapeutic care. Tobacco-smoking control consisting in group and individual interviews made it possible to lower the populational level of tobacco-smoking by 8.4% for 2 years. In the reference group, that indicator decreased by 1.4%. A new narcologic method of the treatment of tobacco-smoking has been elaborated, the efficacy of which amounted to 85.3% for a year. The use of the method led to the lowering of the populational level of tobacco-smoking by 15.1% during 3 years. In the reference group, the number of tobacco-smokers dropped by 4.7%.