Environmental tobacco smoke exposure and smoking habits in a secondary school

The disastrous health effects of smoke addiction developed a growing concern on studding the impact of Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) exposure. In this survey descriptive study we seek to alert to the importance of promoting a smoking free school. For that we need to study the smoking habits, the exposure to ETS, the misdeed to exposure, the noxiousness perception to ETS and the preventive measures from teachers, employers and students. The present results show a high number of smokers inside the secondary school and a daily exposure to ETS by most of the teachers, employers and students, inside and outside. The impact caused by these exposures is perceptible. The same study allows us to confirm that most of the people involved agree with a preventive politic to solve this problem. Therefore, we need to discuss the necessity and the viability from this smoke preventive politics to apply them, if necessary, to this secondary school.