Marbin Jyothi Nagraj, Gribben Valerie
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA.
Children (Basel). 2019 Feb 20;6(2):31. doi: 10.3390/children6020031.
Tobacco use is a global health crisis, and has a tremendous and negative impact on health and wellbeing. Tobacco use disproportionately affects members of vulnerable populations, and by acting on multiple socioecological levels, serves to perpetuate and reinforce cycles of poverty. Members of the pediatric medical community can play a key role in interrupting cycles of tobacco use. Providers can serve as powerful allies to vulnerable communities by treating tobacco use in caregivers, counseling youth against using tobacco products, protecting children from the impact of secondhand smoke exposure, and advocating for economic, social, and health policies to disrupt intergenerational smoking.
烟草使用是一场全球健康危机，对健康和幸福有着巨大的负面影响。烟草使用对弱势群体成员的影响尤为严重，它通过在多个社会生态层面发挥作用，使贫困循环持续并加剧。儿科医学界的成员可以在打破烟草使用循环方面发挥关键作用。医疗服务提供者可以成为弱势群体的有力盟友，通过治疗照顾者的烟草使用问题、劝告青少年不要使用烟草产品、保护儿童免受二手烟暴露的影响，以及倡导经济、社会和健康政策以打破代际吸烟现象。
