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Family and school based programmes to prevent smoking
Summary of the evidence
Multi-component programmes, with both family and schools interventions, for preventing smoking by children and adolescents were found in a systematic review (Thomas et.al., 2015, 27 RCTs), to be more effective than school-only intervention in:
- reducing smokng in adolescents who never smoked at baseline (2 RCTs, N = 2 301) (RR = 0.85, 95 % CI 0.75–0.96)
- reducing smoking in adolescents who were smokers at baseline (1 RCT, N = 1 096) (RR = 0.60, 95 % CI 0.38–0.94)
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Note: this evidence summary is only valid for the outcomes, target groups, settings and substances/patterns of use described below.
