The Current Situation of Passive Smoking in the Public Places in Henan Province
- VernacularTitle:河南省公共场所被动吸烟状况
- Author:
Gang ZHOU
;
Weifeng WANG
;
Ke ZHANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Public places;
Passive-smoking;
Investigation
- From:
Chinese Journal of Prevention and Control of Chronic Diseases
2006;0(01):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective In order to understand situation of the passive smoking in public places and provide scientific basis for formulating a policy of tobacco control and implement FCTC. Methods Observation on site and investigation by questionnaire in 45 public places, including service halls of government, medical and health units, schools, waiting room of communication, markets in the provincial capital, prefecture cities, county town. Results In 45 public places, there was 53.3% being smoking forbidden sites, 31.1% having no -smoking regulations and 68.9% having ban -smoking signs. It was common that people smoking in public places. Investigation by interception showed that it was easy to find out smoker in public paces. 93% persons investigated were exposed to passive-smoking every day over half hour, over 40% were never against on smoking in front of themselves, over 70% smoker never to ask if other persons agreed on their smoking in front of other people. 64.2% student's fathers were smokers and 44.7% of them exposed to passive-smoking at home in a week. 59.3% students saw his teachers smoking at schools. Conclusions It was a serious problem of public health that smoking in public places. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of rulers and law and strictly implement it, while strengthen propaganda and education in order to reduce passive-smoking and promote FCTC implement.
