Calls were made yesterday for more anti-tobacco messages after the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) found that only 42.1% of local students, aged 13 to 15, had seen them within a one-month period.
At a dissemination meeting for the GYTS 2015 report, which was held at the Marriott Hotel yesterday, it was revealed that the survey, conducted among 1,000 students of public schools in Guyana, found that 44.6% of the girls and 39.4% of the boys had noticed anti-tobacco messages in the media in the previous 30 days.
According to Minister within the Ministry of Public Heath Dr. Karen Cummings, interventions should be launched, including mass media campaigns that can educate and protect Guyanese from second-hand smoke and further promote norms that are effective in preventing the initiation and prevalence of smoking among youth.
