The entrance
of tobacco prevention in the curriculum of secondary schools will enable a
better awareness of the youth about the dangers of tobacco.
Despite attitudes changes towards the dangers of tobacco, smoking is
increasing. To remedy this situation, Hilaire Abouna, les Classiques Africains,
alongside the Cameroon Coalition to Counter Tobacco (C3T), for the first time
ever in the Cameroonian educational system, integrated in the module "Health
Education" of the Sciences and Technology manual for the level two of the
secondary education, a chapter entitled "Emerging behaviors harmful to the reproductive health."
The said chapter describes behaviors that can interfere with
reproduction by putting a special emphasis on the dangers of smoking. Indeed,
of the four pages covering this chapter, half are devoted to issues pertaining
to tobacco.
