Doctors may be missing chances to talk to teens about smoking

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Doctors may be missing chances to talk to teens about smoking

“Given that tobacco is still the number one preventable cause of death and disease in the U.S., it is surprising that more clinicians are not intervening with adolescent patients to help them avoid or quit tobacco,” lead author Gillian L. Schauer, of Carter Consulting, Inc., told Reuters Health. Schauer worked on the study as a contractor to the Office on Smoking and Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. To see whether healthcare providers are taking every opportunity to steer kids away from smoking, the researchers analyzed data from a 2011 nationally representative survey of adolescents in middle school and high school. Of the whole group, 32 percent said a healthcare provider had asked them about smoking and 31 percent had been advised to avoid tobacco or quit.

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