Lifelong education for promoting health literacy to tobacco among children and youth

Abstract

Tobacco is a product that contains harmful substances that can affect health. Nowadays, electronic cigarettes have been developed to be more flavorful and aromatic to attract children. Consequently, a marketing strategy as such will attract the youth and will then expose them to numerous cigarette consumption. Therefore, creating adequate health literacy about tobacco will undoubtedly help the children with knowledge and eventually lead them to be able to make decisions to change their health behaviours. By bringing lifelong education, it is then easier to organize education to promote health literacy about smoking for the children continuously, namely: (1) Formal education, to create or develop the curriculum to include content on health knowledge about tobacco. (2) Non-formal education, to apply the science and art of teaching adults and to create a curriculum or a short-term education to contain knowledge about health issues. (3) Informal education, to develop learning materials, learning resources or learning environment that facilitates children's access to health information.