Tobacco Control Peer Education Training (TOCOPET)

Our project was focused on an problem which threatens the youth not only in Turkey but also in the entire world because of being more common and easier obtained beside other drugs: "Tobacco Dependence". The aim of our project is to inform the participants and raise their awareness on tobacco and its damages with seminars and workshops. The 5^th Tobacco Control Peer Education Training (ToCoPET) took place in Ankara in Turkey on 17^th-19^th May 2008 and 17 medics from 7 different medicine faculties in Turkey were involved to our training. The training lasted 3 days and included instructive seminars from professions, small group discussions, brain storming, practices on improving projects and preparing oral presentations. At the end of training, the participants obtained the skills of performing the "Anti-Tobacco Advocacy" and they created 3 research presentations and 3 project schemas.