The Problem of Nicotinism at Primary Schools in České Budějovice Region

Abstract More and more young people, also children, are using tobacco products. It is serious patological phenomenon which can effect not only person using the tobacco products, but also the whole society. Using tobacco products causes serious health hazard and diseases, which are usually irreversible. Smoking tobacco is very spread in Czech republic as much as drinking alcohol. Both these phenomenons are tolerated by the society. Society has a big influence on everyone of us and it is very important to prepare healthy environment for curious and inexperienced children. The target of my work is to map the age and motivation factors of the first use of tobacco products, frequency and range of using and attitude towards the smoking. I also target on prevention in schools. Based on the studied materials I stated hypothesis concerning the age of using, realised prevention in schools and ratio between male and female smokers. I used technique of anonymous inquiries. Inquiry was checked by pre-research on which I examined functionality and fullness of the inquiry. Hypothesis {\clqq}I assume that more than half of under age (younger than 15 years) used tobacco products`` was confirmed by the answers in my inquiry. Hypothesis ``I assume that male smokers are more often{\crqq} wasn{\crq}t confirmed. There is 3% more smoking females than males. Hypothesis {\clqq}I assume that realised prevention in school was after the first experience with tobacco and is there for useless`` was also confirmed. It can be presumed of the fact that 17% of the informants didn{\crq}t answer the question, 3% answered ``I don{\crq}t know{\crqq} and 8% answered that they never received any warnings of health riscs in the school. Informants were chosen from two primary schools. Inquiried were total of 203 informants from 6th to 9th grades from ZŠ Kubatova in České Budějovice (91 pupils) and ZŠ Trhové Sviny (112 pupils). Age of the first experience with tobacco products is getting lower, because this inquiry confirmed that average age of the first experience was at 10,9 year of children{\crq}s age. That is why I maintain how important is to prepare complex view of nikotinism problem on primary schools