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Tobacco smoking habit among Badosh district people | ||
| Medical Journal of Tikrit | ||
| Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 141, 2012, Pages 221-227 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Bassam A. Alnimaa; Muna M. Ahmed; Waleed G. Altaiee | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Tobacco epidemic is the most prevalent epidemic that can affect negatively the health of individuals and communities in most countries. Accordingly, it can be considered as one of the most important health hazards that face individuals and communities nowadays. However, in spite of the large bulk of information and the strongly available statistics towards smoking causative association with the number of dangerous fatal illnesses to man, tobacco consumption rates are still increasing nowadays. The aim of the study is to examine the effect of smoking on the population of Badosh District as there is cement factory nearby the residence of these population . The present research used cross sectional study design and was conducted on a randomly chosen 350 smoker individuals aged 10 years and above from the population of Badosh district. Special questionnaire form used for data collection , the collected data focused on four main aspects. These are, demographic aspects , habit of cigarette smoking, smoking cessation and the health status. Data collection was done through performing a direct interviewing with each individual. It has been found that one third of the sample were in the age group of (20-29) years. the majority of the studied population are married male individuals and 30.6% of them were at the age of (20-29). On the other hand,70.6% of them tried to quit smoking and more than half of them tried to stop smoking for the sake of their health. However one third of the smokers had smoking related diseases mainly respiratory disorders. Most of the smokers had stressful conditions which were the trigger of starting smoking | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Tobacco smoking habit among Badosh district people | ||
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