Jindo-gun Health Center, Visiting Early Childhood Smoking Prevention Education

Utilizing Experiential Smoking Cessation Buses, Operating Various Smoking Prevention Programs

Jindo-gun Public Health Center in Jeollanam-do recently operated various smoking prevention programs using an experiential smoking cessation bus as part of efforts to prevent smoking among young children.

According to the health center on the 12th, this education was conducted a total of 8 times targeting about 140 children from local daycare centers and kindergartens to prevent smoking.

Various smoking prevention programs are being operated on the experiential smoking cessation bus.
[Photo by Jindo-gun]

The experiential smoking cessation bus offered various activities inside the bus, including △ Visiting Nodam Tunteun Island △ Reading picture books about diseases caused by inhaling cigarette smoke △ Stamping a Nodam Collection that I make △ Creating a healthy village free of cigarette smoke.

Children directly boarded and experienced the actual smoking cessation bus, and especially participated actively in a program where they followed dance moves to a smoking cessation song.

Additionally, at the end of the education, smoking cessation education books were provided to help connect smoking prevention efforts to the home.

A representative of Jindo-gun Public Health Center said, “This smoking cessation bus education was a new type of education that could easily and enjoyably inform growing children about the dangers of smoking,” adding, “We hope that children in early childhood, when cognitive abilities are developing, will recognize the harms of smoking and actively support smoking cessation among family members who smoke.”

Meanwhile, the smoking prevention bus education for young children was conducted in Jeollanam-do, including Jindo-gun and one other city/county, selected by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, for local young children.

Jindo = Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Oh Seung-geun just8440@asiae.co.kr

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