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BMC Public Health BioMedCentral Research article Open Access Smoking habits of Greek preschool childrens parents Constantine I Vardavas*1, Dimitrios Athanasopoulos2, Evaggelia Balomenaki2, Dora Niaounaki3, Manolis K Linardakis1 and Anthony G Kafatos1 Address: 1Preventive Medicine and Nutrition Clinic, Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Crete, PO Box 2208, Heraklion 71003, Crete, Greece, 2Pediatrics Clinic, Chania General Hospital, Crete, Greece and 3Chania Office of primary education, Crete, Greece Email: Constantine I Vardavas* - vardavas@edu.med.uoc.gr; Dimitrios Athanasopoulos - kafatos@med.uoc.gr; Evaggelia Balomenaki - kafatos@med.uoc.gr; Dora Niaounaki - flouri@med.uoc.gr; Manolis K Linardakis - linman@med.uoc.gr; Anthony G Kafatos - kafatos@med.uoc.gr * Corresponding author Published: 14 June 2007 Received: 2 January 2007 Accepted: 14 June 2007 BMC Public Health 2007, 7:112 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-7-112 This article is available from: /1471-2458/7/112 ? 2007 Vardavas et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Smoking is Greeces largest public health threat. Greece has the highest adult smoking prevalence among all E.U countries, which in turn possibly predisposes Greek children and adolescents to smoke. The purpose of our study was to research into the smoking habits of preschool childrens parents since children of that age could be vulnerable to parental negative role modeling and to investigate into the necessity of conducting a public health awareness programme aimed at the general population. Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed on the parents of children enrolled in kindergarten in western Crete-Greece