Ozkaya Sevket, Edinsel Suayip, Ozkaya Elif, Hamzaçebi Hasan
Department of Chest Diseases, Samsun Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Hospital, Samsun, Turkey.
Tuberk Toraks. 2009;57(3):327-32.
In developing countries, smoking habit develops between the ages of 12-16. In recent years, various ways to struggle against smoking have been implemented and one of them is to print warnings on cigarette packets. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of these warnings among high school adolescents and their efficiency to make them quit smoking. The total number of the subjects were 917, 103 of whom were female and 814 of whom were male students. The mean age of the subjects was 16.6 + or - 1.1. The rate of the smokers was 24.1%. The rate of the subjects who had tried smoking at least once was 50.6%. When if or not the students were educated about the harmful effects of smoking by any means was evaluated, the rate of educated subjects was 58.3% and 41.7% of the subjects were not educated by any means. All the warnings on cigarette packets were considered to be "important" and "very important" by the subjects. The rate of the subjects who think that the warning phrases will have positive effects on the way to quit was 38.9%, while the rate of the subjects who think that they will have no positive effect was 61.1%. The rate of the subjects who had quitted smoking after reading these warnings was 22.5%, 44.4% of the subjects stated that they were effected but did not quit, and 33.1% of the subjects stated that they were not effected at all by the warnings and continued to smoke. The warnings on cigarette packets were found to serve as an additional information source about the harmful effects of smoking and had beneficial effects on the subjects' decision to quit. It was concluded that the method is an important step in the struggle against smoking.
在发展中国家，吸烟习惯通常在12至16岁之间养成。近年来，人们采取了各种戒烟方法，其中之一就是在香烟包装上印制警示语。本研究的目的是确定这些警示语对高中青少年的影响以及促使他们戒烟的效果。研究对象共有917人，其中女生103人，男生814人。研究对象的平均年龄为16.6±1.1岁。吸烟者的比例为24.1%。至少尝试过一次吸烟的研究对象比例为50.6%。在评估学生是否通过任何方式接受过吸烟有害影响的教育时，接受过教育的研究对象比例为58.3%，41.7%的研究对象未接受过任何形式的教育。研究对象认为香烟包装上所有的警示语都“重要”或“非常重要”。认为警示语对戒烟有积极影响的研究对象比例为38.9%，而认为没有积极影响的比例为61.1%。阅读这些警示语后戒烟的研究对象比例为22.5%，44.4%的研究对象表示受到了影响但没有戒烟，33.1%的研究对象表示完全没有受到警示语的影响，继续吸烟。研究发现，香烟包装上的警示语可作为吸烟有害影响的额外信息来源，对研究对象的戒烟决定有有益影响。研究得出结论，该方法是戒烟斗争中的重要一步。
