Current status s of attempted smoking and tobacco advertising exposure among junior middle school students in Hebei Province
Objective To understand the smoking attempt and tobacco advertisement exposure of junior high school students in Hebei Province,and to provide support for smoking control intervention and smoking control poli-cy.Methods A multi-stage stratified cluster random sampling method was used to select students from junior high school in 2021,using the 2021 questionnaire on tobacco prevalence among Chinese youth developed by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention,to investigate students'basic information,tobacco use,second-hand smoke exposure and tobacco advertising acquisition,and analyze the smoking attempts and its influencing factors of students.Results Among the 31 486 junior high school students in Hebei Province,3049 tried to smoke,and the weighted smoking rate was 9.42%(95%CI:8.00-11.05).Boys were significantly higher than girls,and the difference was statistically significant(P<0.05);The number of students exposed to tobacco advertising and promotion in the past 30 days was 17 139,and the exposure rate of to-bacco advertising and promotion was 54.36%.Among them,the highest rate of exposure was 48.67%(95%CI:46.65-50.70)on TV or video,followed by 15.41%(95%CI:14.60-16.27)on the Internet;The results of multivariate Lo-gistic regression analysis showed that male students(OR=1.594,95%CI:1.997-2.709),second grade students(OR=1.320,95%CI:1.108-1.574),pocket money>40yuanaweek(OR=1.412,95%CI:1.253-1.592),parents smoking(OR=1.260,95%CI:1.078-1.472),friends smoking(OR=6.680,95%CI:5.482-8.141),teachers smoking(OR=1.686,95%CI:1.410-2.016),second-hand smoke exposure(OR=3.084,95%CI:2.667-3.566),tobacco advertising and promotion exposure(OR=1.451,95%CI:1.259-1.674)were the risk factors for junior high school students to try to smoke,and exposure to media smoking control information(OR=0.617,95%CI:0.555-0.685)was the protective factor for junior high school students to try to smoke.Conclusion The smoking rate of junior high school students in Hebei Province is high,and the exposure of tobacco advertisements is serious.In the future,we should purify the society,the campus and the surrounding environment,and the influence of tobacco advertisements and promotions on students,so as to reduce the occurrence of smoking attempts.
Junior high school studentsTry smoking behaviorTobacco advertising exposureHebei Province