Many people think that it is justified to start smoking prevention activities even at school age.
The basic behavior patterns are imprinted as early as in the day nursery and in the kindergarten and this is unfortunately true for smoking as well. As far as we know more and more kindergartens have children who have already tried out smoking. Our objective was to create a smoking prevention program in kindergarten providing information to children, kindergarten teachers, welfare workers, parents, nurses and doctors and helping to form their attitude about smoking. To achieve this objective, a model experiment has been developed and tested in practice in Budapest and in the towns of Hatvan and Kazincbarcika in four kindergartens. We also paid attention to the involvement of parents.