Boulos Dina N K, Loffredo Christopher A, El Setouhy Maged, Abdel-Aziz Fatma, Israel Ebenezer, Mohamed Mostafa K
Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Nicotine Tob Res. 2009 Feb;11(2):134-8. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntp016. Epub 2009 Feb 26.
Understanding tobacco use among nondaily and light daily cigarette smokers is needed because they are dissimilar from other smokers and may require specific prevention efforts.
We compared three groups of adult male smokers in rural Egypt: light daily and nondaily smokers versus moderate-to-heavy daily smokers. Data were obtained from a household survey in 2003 in six randomly selected villages in the Nile Delta region of Egypt. There were 7,657 adult participants, of whom 48.6% were male and 51.4% were female. Among them, 1,401 males (37.6%) and 5 females (0.1%) were self-identified as current cigarette smokers; further analysis focused on males. We restricted data analysis to those who reported a stable pattern of 3+ years of smoking. There were 42 nondaily smokers. Daily smokers were subdivided into two groups: light daily smokers (who smoked no more than 10 cigarettes/day; n = 223) and moderate-to-heavy daily smokers (who smoked at least 11 cigarettes/day; n = 769).
We found statistically significant differences between these groups on nearly every measure: nondaily smokers tended to be younger and unmarried, but they also had higher levels of education and professional occupations compared with the other smokers. Nondaily and the light daily smokers were more likely than moderate-to-heavy smokers to be planning to quit and to have self-efficacy for quitting, and they were less likely to be smoking in the presence of their wife and children at home.
Further understanding of nondaily and light daily smokers may aid in tailoring specific interventions.
了解非每日吸烟和轻度每日吸烟的吸烟者的吸烟情况很有必要，因为他们与其他吸烟者不同，可能需要特定的预防措施。
我们比较了埃及农村地区的三组成年男性吸烟者：轻度每日吸烟和非每日吸烟者与中度至重度每日吸烟者。数据来自2003年在埃及尼罗河三角洲地区随机选取的六个村庄进行的一项家庭调查。共有7657名成年参与者，其中48.6%为男性，51.4%为女性。其中，1401名男性（37.6%）和5名女性（0.1%）自称是当前吸烟者；进一步的分析集中在男性身上。我们将数据分析限制在那些报告有3年以上稳定吸烟模式的人。有42名非每日吸烟者。每日吸烟者被分为两组：轻度每日吸烟者（每天吸烟不超过10支；n = 223）和中度至重度每日吸烟者（每天至少吸烟11支；n = 769）。
我们发现这些组在几乎每一项指标上都存在统计学上的显著差异：非每日吸烟者往往更年轻且未婚，但与其他吸烟者相比，他们的教育水平和职业水平也更高。与中度至重度吸烟者相比，非每日吸烟者和轻度每日吸烟者更有可能计划戒烟并具有戒烟的自我效能感，而且他们在家中当着妻子和孩子的面吸烟的可能性更小。
对非每日吸烟者和轻度每日吸烟者的进一步了解可能有助于制定特定的干预措施。
