A Qualitative Study: The Perception on Anti- Smoking Campaign among Smokers in Kuantan

Md., Muhammad Lokman; Normalina, A.; Afzan, M.Y.; Helmy, J. Mohamad

doi:10.17576/mh.2020.1501.12

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“…In addition, a high education level has been recognised as being associated with good knowledge; this too can contribute to the success of the universities' smoke-free campus policy. Increased knowledge had been associated with implementation of the smoke-free policy in many different populations in Malaysia and in other countries (Smith & Umenai, 2000;Haddad & Malak, 2002;Lim et al, 2017;Jaafar et al, 2019;Quintana et al, 2019;Alves, Precioso & Becoña, 2020). A 2-phase cross-sectional study of undergraduate students in Vietnam showed significant increases in knowledge of the harmful effect of smoking and of smoke-free legislation 1 year after the enactment of Vietnamese Tobacco Control Legislation (Nguyen et al, 2020).…”

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Assessing the Factors Associated with Smoking at Public Universities with Smoke-Free Campus Policy in Malaysia

Yusop,

Mohmad,

Ismail

et al. 2024

ASMScJ

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The smoke-free campus policy in universities is one effort to combat smoking habits and to create non-smoking social norms. This is important, as young adulthood represents a critical period for the development of tobacco use. Thus, this study aimed to assess the factors associated with smoking at public universities with smoke-free campus policy in Malaysia. This was a cross-sectional study performed at the two public universities in Malaysia that were the earliest to have implemented the policy. The study involved a total of 1,063 respondents, stratified by the number of students and staff and aged ≥18 years. Data were collected from September 2019 to November 2019 using a self-administered online questionnaire. Among the respondents, 5.2% were smokers. The respondents had good knowledge of smoking (68.6%). The majority had negative attitudes (95.8%) and practices (89.7%) towards smoking. There were significant associations between smoking status and gender (p=<0.001; 95% CI 3.2,16.04), income level (p=0.02; 95% CI 1.16, 5.34), smoking attitude (p=0.003; 95% CI 0.12, 0.66), and practice (p=<0.001; 95% CI 0.09, 0.33). Our findings show that universities that implement a smoke-free campus policy have low smoking prevalence, good knowledge and negative attitude and practice toward smoking. However, we recommend that the relevant authorities consider all factors related to smoking status to combat smoking initiation, thereby establishing non-smoking social norms in universities.

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