Tobacco use in young people: being emic to end the epidemic
Menée à partir des données 1990-2019 de 3 625 enquêtes réalisées dans 204 pays, cette étude cartographie la prévalence du tabagisme chez les jeunes dans le monde et analyse leurs comportements tabagiques
In their Article in The Lancet Public Health, Marissa Reitsma and colleagues report their comprehensive analysis of smoking tobacco use in young people from more than 3000 tobacco surveys from 204 countries and territories around the world. The result is an invaluable overview of an epidemic that causes millions of deaths every year. Their detailed mapping of the prevalence of smoking tobacco use in young people (aged 15–24 years) will be a reference for policy and research in the years to come. Moreover, the authors documented two important general patterns.