This article is a report from comparison surveys, carried out in connection with WHO-CINDI Programme during the years 1991–2007. The analysis was based on random sampling tests concerning big Polish cities’ inhabitants, all in all almost 11.5 thousand respondents. Taking everything into consideration, it has been established, that:
- Regular smoking frequency becomes smaller (the effect of implemented prophylactic programmes, a so-called ‘intervention variable’).
- Still, propagation of environmental smoking is an alarming phenomenon, however it is definitely improving. Despite the fact, that more and more respondents are living in a free-smoking zone, each 5-6 adult city inhabitant spends over 5 hours a day in a room full of smoke.
- Within time passing, as a result of quitting an addiction, a belief concerning harmful smoking consequences grows. This tendency is not yet sufficiently justified. Becoming alarmed with the concerning phenomenon is definitely not enough when making an opinion in this matter
