70pc smokers in B'desh plan to give up smoking
Saturday, 26 December 2009
About 70 per cent of the current smokers in Bangladesh are planning to quit smoking, according to a survey.
"More significantly, almost half of the current smokers (47.3pc) made attempts to give up smoking in the last 12 months," the survey added, reports UNB.
The survey titled 'Global Adult Tobacco Survey, Bangladesh Report 2009' is the first ever assessment made in Bangladesh in private sector using electronic means of data collection.
The National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM) in collaboration with Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) and the National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT) conducted the survey.
It was conducted this year as a household survey among the people of
15 years of age and above. The data were collected from 200 urban and 200 rural primary sampling units drawn by a multi-stage, clustered sample design to produce nationality representative data.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention provided technical assistance for conducting the survey with financial assistance from Bloomberg Philanthropies under the Bloomberg Global Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use.
Bangladesh is one of those countries where both production and consumption of tobacco are high and it is overburdened with tobacco-related diseases.
Though a good number of smokers plan to change their habit realising its dangerous effects on health, the number of smokers is not falling at all. A 2004 WHO study attributed 57,000 deaths and 382,000 disabilities in Bangladesh to tobacco use.
The current survey finds 21.9 million tobacco users in Bangladesh while 25.9 million of the adult population currently uses smokeless tobacco. Though the prevalence is almost similar in males (26.4 %) and females (27.9), the current smokeless tobacco use is more prevalent in rural areas.
"More significantly, almost half of the current smokers (47.3pc) made attempts to give up smoking in the last 12 months," the survey added, reports UNB.
The survey titled 'Global Adult Tobacco Survey, Bangladesh Report 2009' is the first ever assessment made in Bangladesh in private sector using electronic means of data collection.
The National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM) in collaboration with Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) and the National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT) conducted the survey.
It was conducted this year as a household survey among the people of
15 years of age and above. The data were collected from 200 urban and 200 rural primary sampling units drawn by a multi-stage, clustered sample design to produce nationality representative data.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention provided technical assistance for conducting the survey with financial assistance from Bloomberg Philanthropies under the Bloomberg Global Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use.
Bangladesh is one of those countries where both production and consumption of tobacco are high and it is overburdened with tobacco-related diseases.
Though a good number of smokers plan to change their habit realising its dangerous effects on health, the number of smokers is not falling at all. A 2004 WHO study attributed 57,000 deaths and 382,000 disabilities in Bangladesh to tobacco use.
The current survey finds 21.9 million tobacco users in Bangladesh while 25.9 million of the adult population currently uses smokeless tobacco. Though the prevalence is almost similar in males (26.4 %) and females (27.9), the current smokeless tobacco use is more prevalent in rural areas.