Preventing smoking uptake among adolescents - A primary prevention initiative for chronic lung disease in India

吸烟是肺癌、慢性阻塞性肺病和一系列其他肺部疾病的最大可避免原因，因此，防止吸烟和长期吸烟对减少慢性肺病的全球负担至关重要。印度的烟草消费正在增加，作为烟草产品的一个巨大的潜在未来市场，该国很容易受到烟草业积极营销和促销的影响。该拟议项目旨在确定和了解增加青少年开始吸烟风险的环境因素，目的是为干预措施提供信息，以减少新吸烟者的数量，并最终预防未来的慢性肺部疾病。我们还将调查地方和国家层面利益相关者当前对烟草控制政策实施的态度，以找出更广泛实施反吸烟政策的障碍。为了确保我们的研究结果能够发挥最大的作用，我们将与所有促进印度公共卫生的利益相关者分享这些研究结果;我们的研究结果也可能与其他低收入和中等收入国家的吸烟预防直接相关。

Smoking tobacco is the largest avoidable cause of lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and a range of other pulmonary disorders, and preventing the uptake and perpetuation of tobacco use is therefore crucial to reducing the global burden of chronic lung disease. Tobacco consumption is increasing in India, and as a large potential future market for tobacco products the country is vulnerable to aggressive marketing and promotion by the tobacco industry. This proposed project aims to identify and understand environmental factors that increase the risk of adolescents starting to smoke tobacco, with the aim of informing interventions that can reduce the number of new tobacco smokers and ultimately prevent chronic lung disease in the future. We will also investigate current attitudes to tobacco control policy implementation from stakeholders at local and national levels, to identify obstacles to more extensive implementation of anti-smoking policies. To ensure that our findings can be used to maximum effect they will be shared with all relevant stakeholders promoting public health in India; our findings are also likely to be directly relevant to smoking prevention in other low and middle-income countries.