Article Excerpt: Doctors do make a difference when it comes to keeping children and teenagers from taking up tobacco. This may sound like a no-brainer, but until recently there wasn’t strong evidence that anti-smoking efforts by pediatricians and other primary care doctors make a difference.
That evidence is now clear, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent group that today called for pediatricians and other primary care doctors to talk with children, teenagers and parents about the harms of smoking. The independent task force also endorsed doctors’ use of computer programs, videos and print materials with anti-tobacco messages.
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Source: NPR