Villarreal VF, Cantú MPC

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ABSTRACT

The consumption of alcohol and tobacco is a remarkable social problem, and it is that there is a modification in the use pattern and in the class of the consumers. Numerous studies point out the adolescent stage as that of more risk in the beginning of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco, oscillating the age and indicating that if it is begun in this habit to an early age the risk it increases. The present investigation examines the incidence of smokers and drinkers of alcohol, and the degree of 99 adolescents' of superior half education knowledge is compared with inclination to the area of the health and engineering with regard to the damages to the health for consumption of alcohol and tobacco and its perception on the social image for consumption of these, in Monterrey, N.L. (Mexico). being that the beginning age and the escalation to acquire the habit of to smoke and to drink alcohol begin to an early age and it increases being accentuated with the age, with an incidence of 5 and 7 students for each 10 to the 15 year-old age and more. Likewise it is appreciated that difference doesn't exist in the incidence of students that you/they smoke and they ingest alcohol, nevertheless the inclination of a group for the educational aspects of the health. On the other hand, he/she has been able to check that significant difference doesn't exist in the knowledge from the damage to the health for the consumption of alcohol and tobacco; reason why cannot consider as a protective factor having an education propensity to the health.

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