There are at least 1.7 million smokers in Malaysia. One in every 5 Malaysia aged 15 years and above is a smoker. A study by the Ministry of Youth and Sports in 1994 on 6,000 youths showed that 71 percent has experimented with cigarettes. A recent survey showed that 85 percent of smokers were aged between 19 and 22 years.
In total consumption increased by 57 percent over the period 1965-1984, an average of 3 percent per annum. An estimated 17 billion sticks of cigarettes is currently
[1990] consumed, worth US$530 million [US$1.00=RM2.50].
According to 1996 Ministry of Health Survey, there were 2.4 million smokers in Malaysia, the number of male smokers had increased from: 41.0% in 1986 to 49.2% in 1996. In the past 10 years, smoking related deaths comprised three out of the five main killers in Malaysia
Male students smoked an average of 24.3 cigarettes per week. About 14% of them reported that they are addicted to cigarettes. Male students whose father smoked, were 1.81 times more likely to be a smoker compared to those whose father did not.
Smoking habits among school teachers: 40.56% (None of the female teachers smoked). About 64% of the smokers started to smoke before 14 years of age. About 59% smoked more than 10 cigarettes per day. About 67% of the smokers thought of quitting smoking. Of those 72% had tried at least once.
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Smoking is my suggestion topic . Actually all my siblings are not smoker, including my husband. so I'm very excited to tell the world that smoking is very dangerous for our life.Obviously, in our discussion all the member agree to choose this topic.
ReplyDeleteMy husband is also not a smoker. We can identify the smokers by looking at their appearance. They are always tired and have red eyes.
ReplyDeleteI THINK IT IS VERY INTERESTING TOPIC TO BE DISCUSSED.WE CAN ALSO ADD IN THE NUMBER OR PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF LUNG CANCER WHICH IS CAUSED BY SMOKING.NOWADAYS MORE PEOPLE AND TEENAGERS ARE INVOLVED IN SMOKING WHICH I THINK IS WASTE OF MONEY ,TIME AND BAD FOR OUR HEALTH.
ReplyDeletehey am doin a project on tobacco/ciagrette smoking and would like to ask if you can help me get this figures maybe the reports from ministry of health..
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