Passive and active smoking and its prevention among primary school pupils

This bachelor work is called Passive and active smoking and its prevention among primary school pupils. It´s divided in several parts one of which is a description of the process of becoming a involuntary passive smoker, an overview about principal consequences of being active or passive smoker as well as the summary of composition of the tobacco smoke, which is very injurious to human health. There is also a chapter talking about main differences between the influence of the passive and active smoking on human organism. Passive smoking belongs to the most extended global and social problems nowadays and the most endangered group of passive smokers are children living with active smokers at home. Children frequenting elementary schools are very specific group of young people. Active smoking is dramatically extended in this type of schools, that´s way this bachelor work also talks about the prevention, its meaning and possibilities. The last part of this bachelor work is a research realized on the group of 80 pupils as well as their age, family background and particularly experiences with smoking, their knowledge about the prevention of negative influence of smoking on the organism and how important role do the schools and family have in the process of the prevention. The mentioned research was accompanied by the interview with the methodist of prevention of selected elementary school. The conclusion of the bachelor work is the detailed analysis of acquiered information and results