The Investigation And Study On The Resident Smoking Status In Chongqing Urban Area

Objective:To investigate the current smoking status among the residents inChongqing urban area, so as to provide the evidence for the governmentconcerned to make tobacco control policy or improve the present tobaccocontrol policy, for reducing tobacco hazardous.Methods:Multi-stage random sampling was used to investigate the age of15years old and older residents with household survey in Yuzhong, Jiu longpo,Sha pingba, Nanan,Yubei, Jiangbei district in Chongqing.Results:1. The smoking rate of residents is30.73%, Male’s smoking rate(54.12%) is obviously higher than female’s(4.84%), And with theimprovement of education level, smoking rate is decreasing. Smokersregularly start smoking with an average of18.73±4.68years old.2.82.93%of smokers know that smoking is harmful to others’ health,but there are still29.34%of smokers smoked in smoke-free places, only53.06%of the smokers who smoked in smoke-free places were discouraged. 37.43%of smokers have intention to quit smoking. Whether cigarette priceis going up or not, Past quitting experience, whether noticing healthwarnings on cigarette packs or not in latest month, and workplacesmoking regulations, are main factors to influence the smoker intention toquit smoking.3. The residents’ passive smoking rate is45.95％.82.07%ofnon-smokers mind others smoking around them and females is87.98%,much higher than70.99%of males.4. Residents who have smoking restrictions at home, who havesmoking regulations and anti-smoking logo on workplace were less thanhalf.5. Smokers rate of psychological barrier (24.85%) was significantlyhigher than non-smokers(19.26%).Conclusion:In recent years, tobacco control effect of Chongqing is not satisfactory.Residents are lack of knowledge about the harms of tobacco, smokersquitting intention is not strong. Non-smokers intention refusing to passivesmoking are weak. On the one hand, the government departmentsconcerned should publicize the dangers of tobacco through variousmeasures to improve residents’ health awareness, encourage residentsconsciously, actively participate in anti-smoking campaign; on the otherhand, the government departments concerned should improve and strengthen tobacco control legislation and strictly enforce the law.Meanwhile, we should greatly praise outstanding smoke-free units,departments, through a variety of media to create a smoke-free atmosphereand form a good supervision system.