Austrian teenager smoke generally and therefore enhanced the risk of suffering asthma, the Austrian Society of Pneumology said in a research results released on Monday, a day before the World Asthma day.
"20 percent of the 15-year-old boys and 25 percent of the 15-year-old girls smoke daily," said the research, about 50 percent students in the vocational schools smoke. Teenager who never smoke are only around 20 percent.
The situation of teenagers who worked in gastronomy is particularly serious with a smoking rate of 70 percent, which mainly attribute to the negative influence from those smoking colleagues and guests.
Josef Riedler, an Austrian specialist on respiratory diseases in childhood and adolescence of Austrian Society of Pneumology, said passive smoking would lead to asthma, especially those who passively smoked during the first month of their lives.
Riedler pointed out that a research about more than 4,000 families with children showed that "who passively smoked during the first month of their lives, will be more sensible against allergens."
He called for attentions on the harm of passive smoking to infants.
Austrian government these days also reached a consensus of intensifying the protection of non-smokers by setting relative laws and rules. The rule, which stipulates that restaurants over 50 square meters should afford non-smoke area, would be carried out next year and high price penalty is expected for those which violates the rule.
Source:Xinhua
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