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Self assessment report of upper elementary school students on access to their 1st cigarette at Ban Dung District, Udon Thani Province, 2019
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Department of Dental Public Health, Bandung Crown Prince Hospital, Udon Thani, Thailand
Publication date: 2021-09-02
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Lakkana Ouijirakul
Department of Dental Public Health, Bandung Crown Prince Hospital, Udon Thani, Thailand
Tob. Induc. Dis. 2021;19(Suppl 1):A127
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Introduction:
In 2017, the dental work group Ban Dung Crown Prince Hospital joined the project to help patients quit smoking at the hospital, The Thai Dentist Against Tobacco Project, And participate in The Project to stop new smokers.
Objectives:
The purpose of this report is to show survey results about the risk of the upper elementary school students in order to monitor new smokers at Ban Dung District, Udon Thani Province, 2019.
Methods:
Create survey forms through the Google Forms program and publicize through various schools to invite the upper elementary school students take the survey.
Results:
Consecutively to the self-responded 2019 be Survey among the upper elementary school students in grade 4, 5 and 6 respondents surveyed 26.4, 30.0 and 30.6 % respectively. 53.2% of the students live in a family that has people who smoke. Family members used to use students to bought cigarettes, up to 37.7 %. Students had friends who smoked 10.4 %. Family or friends who used to use students to bought cigarettes 25.1%. Student can bought a full pack of cigarettes 59.7% and can bought separate packets 40.3%. Students used to be invited by friends to smoke 11.7 %. Students tried to smoke because their friends invited 12.4%.
Conclusion(s):
From the corresponding it shows that there are still a crime in the community, retail stores in the community are also sold cigarettes to children in school age. The main risk factor is the lack of methods /standards to monitor. Regulate the laws governing tobacco consumption. And negative reinforcing factors are family and friends that support the youth to buy cigarettes in a variety of behaviors. Retailers were failure to ask a minor for age or failure to demand a minor for ID card and sale individual cigarette. The challenge issue and need to resolve.