MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2006 May 26;55(20):556-9.
Tobacco use is one of the major preventable causes of premature death and disease in the world. The Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS), part of the Global Tobacco Surveillance System initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO), CDC, and the Canadian Public Health Association, was developed to monitor tobacco use, attitudes about tobacco, and exposure to secondhand smoke among youths and has been conducted in 140 countries. This report presents findings from the GYTS conducted in the Kurdistan region of Iraq (i.e., Irbil, as-Sulaymaniyah, and Dahuk governorates) in 2005, which revealed that one in 10 students currently smoked cigarettes or used other tobacco products. Boys (21%) were statistically significantly more likely than girls (2.1%) to smoke cigarettes, but no significant difference was observed between boys and girls in their use of other tobacco products. Public health authorities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq can use the baseline information from the GYTS to design and implement tobacco-control programs to reduce youth smoking.
吸烟是世界上主要的可预防的过早死亡和疾病原因之一。全球青少年烟草调查（GYTS）是世界卫生组织（WHO）、美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）和加拿大公共卫生协会发起的全球烟草监测系统的一部分，旨在监测青少年的烟草使用情况、对烟草的态度以及二手烟暴露情况，该调查已在140个国家开展。本报告呈现了2005年在伊拉克库尔德地区（即埃尔比勒、苏莱曼尼亚和杜胡克省）进行的全球青少年烟草调查的结果，该结果显示，每10名学生中就有1人目前吸烟或使用其他烟草制品。从统计学角度来看，男孩（21%）吸烟的可能性显著高于女孩（2.1%），但在使用其他烟草制品方面，男孩和女孩之间未观察到显著差异。伊拉克库尔德地区的公共卫生当局可以利用全球青少年烟草调查的基线信息来设计和实施烟草控制项目，以减少青少年吸烟。
