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The goal of this chapter is to synthesize available data on incidence and prevalence of smoking at school. Summarily, this chapter offers an overview of the actual trend of smoking habits among adolescents.

Moreover, a synthesis of available information of smoking at workplace will be given.

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  2. Institute of Hygiene, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Largo Francesco Vito, 1, Rome, 00168, Italy

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La Torre, G., Kheiraoui, F. (2013). Smoking Prevention in the Communities. In: Smoking Prevention and Cessation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7046-5_6

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