Hiawalyer Gilbert
Monitoring & Research Branch, Department of Health, Papua New Guinea.
Pac Health Dialog. 2002 Sep;9(2):209-13.
This study done was done during the 1996/1997-school break in NCD and Manus. There were total of 2000 and 1000 young people were interviewed respectively from NCD and Manus. From the 1150 males and 850 females interviewed in NCD, 115(10%) males and 315(37%) females were non-smokers. There were 138(12%) males and 68(8%) females smoked cigarettes. There were 150(13%) males and 84(10%) females smoked marijuana. Those who smoked marijuana also smoked cigarettes and mutrus. Even though there was higher rate of smokers among males, there is a high rate among female smokers in NCD. There were 163(10%) and 63(7%) smokers for the age group 8-10 yrs in NCD and Manus respectively. For the age group 11-12 there were 186(12%) in NCD and 91(11%) in Manus. In NCD there were 257(16%) smokers and 107(13%) in Manus in the age group of 13-14 yrs. There were 281(18%) and 153(18%) smokers in the age group 15-16 yrs in NCD and Manus respectively. There were 157(37%) of non-smokers in NCD and 28(18%) in Manus did not smoke because of they were told by their teachers on the dangers of tobacco and marijuana smoking. The effort by health workers on health messages on the dangers of smoking tobacco and marijuana did influence 72(17%) non-smokers in NCD and 56(36%) in Manus on young people. Parents and teachers have full responsibility of ensuring that messages on the dangers of tobacco and marijuana smoking aregiven to the young people. Aggressive promotion of cigarette products has influenced smoking and should be stopped.
这项研究是在1996/1997学年假期期间在新喀里多尼亚和马努斯进行的。分别从新喀里多尼亚和马努斯采访了总共2000名和1000名年轻人。在新喀里多尼亚接受采访的1150名男性和850名女性中，115名（10%）男性和315名（37%）女性不吸烟。有138名（12%）男性和68名（8%）女性吸烟。有150名（13%）男性和84名（10%）女性吸食大麻。吸食大麻的人也吸烟和嚼槟榔。尽管男性吸烟率较高，但新喀里多尼亚女性吸烟者的比例也很高。在新喀里多尼亚和马努斯，8至10岁年龄组的吸烟者分别有163名（10%）和63名（7%）。11至12岁年龄组在新喀里多尼亚有186名（12%），在马努斯有91名（11%）。在新喀里多尼亚，13至14岁年龄组有257名（16%）吸烟者，在马努斯有107名（13%）。在新喀里多尼亚和马努斯，15至16岁年龄组的吸烟者分别有281名（18%）和153名（18%）。在新喀里多尼亚，157名（37%）人不吸烟，在马努斯，28名（18%）人不吸烟是因为他们的老师告诉他们吸烟和吸食大麻的危害。卫生工作者关于吸烟和吸食大麻危害的健康信息宣传确实影响了新喀里多尼亚72名（17%）不吸烟者和马努斯56名（36%）年轻人。家长和教师有责任确保向年轻人传达吸烟和吸食大麻危害的信息。香烟产品的大力促销影响了吸烟行为，应该停止。
