Razzak Hira Abdul, Harbi Alya, Ahli Shaima
Statistics and Research Centre, Ministry of Health and Prevention, Dubai, UAE.
Oman Med J. 2020 Jul 31;35(4):e165. doi: 10.5001/omj.2020.107. eCollection 2020 Jul.
Tobacco smoking is a major public health concern and a leading cause of preventable death. We sought to review epidemiological studies available on the prevalence of tobacco use, the associated health effects, and interventions that have undergone evaluation concerning smoking cessation and prevention in the UAE.
An electronic search of the PubMed and Scopus databases was conducted using appropriate keywords for articles published between 2007 and 2017. We included all English-language articles in addition to research articles on the UAE populations (including both citizens and expatriates).
Fourteen articles were included, of which 11 were cross-sectional studies, one was a cohort longitudinal study, one was quasi-experimental, and one case-control study. Our results suggest that current smoking prevalence estimates vary widely. This is the first study in the region to review the smoking prevalence, health risk, and interventions in the UAE.
UAE Government demonstrated excellent efforts by raising the cost of smoking through taxation, mounting sustained social marketing campaigns, and ensuring that health professionals routinely advise smokers to stop smoking accompanied by behavioral and pharmacological support for cessation. Hence, future research should be more focused on evaluating the outcome and impact of current anti-smoking campaigns.
吸烟是一个主要的公共卫生问题，也是可预防死亡的主要原因。我们试图回顾有关阿联酋烟草使用流行率、相关健康影响以及已针对戒烟和预防进行评估的干预措施的现有流行病学研究。
使用适当的关键词对2007年至2017年发表的文章在PubMed和Scopus数据库中进行电子检索。除了关于阿联酋人群（包括公民和外籍人士）的研究文章外，我们纳入了所有英文文章。
纳入了14篇文章，其中11篇为横断面研究，1篇为队列纵向研究，1篇为准实验研究，1篇为病例对照研究。我们的结果表明，目前的吸烟流行率估计差异很大。这是该地区首次对阿联酋的吸烟流行率、健康风险和干预措施进行综述的研究。
阿联酋政府通过提高烟草税、开展持续的社会营销活动以及确保卫生专业人员定期建议吸烟者戒烟并提供行为和药物戒烟支持等方式做出了卓越努力。因此，未来的研究应更侧重于评估当前反吸烟运动的效果和影响。
