Musa, Razlan
A study of the determinants of smoking behaviour and the association of smoking with lung function of male secondary school students in Kota Bharu.
A study of the determinants of smoking behaviour and the association of smoking with lung function of male secondary school students in Kota Bharu..
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Abstract
Smoking in Malaysia has mostly been a male activity and it is among men that
there has been a high prevalence of smoking prevalence. This is true for adult as well
as for adolescents, based on the National Health and Morbidity Surveys (NHMS) and
several studies conducted in Malaysia (Country Report: Malaysia, 2001 ). The high
overall smoking prevalence in Malaysia has been actually contributed by the
prevalence among male population. In the National Health and Morbidity Survey
1996, the smoking prevalence of Malaysian population aged 18 years and above was
24.8 percent. The prevalence among men was 49.2 percent compared to 3.5 percent
among women. This was higher than the previous National Health and Morbidity
survey conducted in 1986 that found a total smoking prevalence of 21.5 percent, with
male smoking rates at 41 percent compared to 4 percent among women (Country
Report: Malaysia, 2001 ). The prevalence can be considered high in both surveys even
though they are not comparable due to the differences in population characteristics.
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