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Abstract
This is a descriptive study that was held among different occupations of Minia University including Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Fine Arts.
The study was conducted by interviewing 219 staff members & SA, 245 clerical workers and 36 manual workers using a structured questionnaire which included, sociodemographic data, smoking details, passive smoking details in work and home, questions about smoking health hazard, psychosocial hazards and economic hazards. It also contained different questions regarding e-cigarettes, smoking quitting methods and willingness and lastly the Fagerström score for Nicotine Dependence.
Results:
Mean age of the studied sample was 38.4 ± 11.4 with more than three fourths of the sample from urban residency.
Smoking prevalence was 20.2% of which, 27.7% were staff members and staff assistants (noting that staff members & SA of faculty of Medicine were lower than those of faculty of Fine arts), 58.4% were clerical workers and 13.9% were manual workers. Passive smokers compromised about 23.6% of the sample, ex-smokers were 3.6% and the rest (52.6%) were nonsmokers.
The most commonly reported cause of smoking initiation was “suggestion from friends”, with “cigarette smoking” being the most frequent form of tobacco products among Minia University workers.
Mean age of starting smoking was 20.37 ± 12.89 and mean number of smoked cigarettes was 22.3 ± 12.89 with mean smoking index 517.79 ± 483.27 being higher among clerical workers (538.8 ± 422.9) and faculty of Fine arts (614.61 ± 627.8).
About 70.3% of smokers were willing to quit smoking but only 35.3% were willing to participate in our smoking cessation program. The majority of them tried to quit before, mostly due to health issues.
Three fourths of workers were annoyed due to their exposure to passive smoking either in workplace or public places and many of them had various symptoms as a result of exposure. The workers’ reaction when exposed to smoke had several forms (opening windows, leaving the room or asking smokers to stop smoking or quit the room) but the minority only who did nothing concerning exposure noting that this negative reaction was reported more when exposed to smoke at home (12.8%) than in public places (9.8%).
The mean knowledge score for smoking health hazards for the whole sample was 13.27 ± 4.08 with significant difference between males and females, staff members & SA, clerical and manual workers, faculty of Medicine and faculty of Fine arts and lastly the different smoking statuses.