FITeens Toolkit

67 adolescents’ smoking behaviou r revealed that peers are the strongest predictor of smoking among adolescents. Specifically, an adolescent having friends who smoke doubles the risk of picking up the same unhealthy habit (Liu et al., 2017). Preventing children and adolescents from starting to use tobacco is more effective and it costs less than helping them to quit. Below, you can check our recommendations, based on scientific evidence, to prevent the use of tobacco consumption among children and adolescents.