Knowledge and attitude of Bangladesh people regarding passive smoking

Abstract

Passive smoking is injurious to health and it causes severe problems, even death. People are exposed to passive smoking in their daily life in different places. The aim of this study was to find out the knowledge level and attitude of general people regarding passive smoking. This was a survey based study conducted with 709 people, who are from both rural and urban area. This study was conducted on both smokers and non-smokers. People above the age of 18 were included as the study population. Most of the people (71%) had a good knowledge about passive smoking. Most (48.24%) people believed that it causes severe problems on the other hand a minor (5.92%) number of people believed that it had no effect on the health. A huge number (96.47%) of people were exposed to passive smoking and in most cases (84.36%) there were no restriction on those areas. More over 87% people supported the ban of smoking in public places. Most (86%) people felt the need of awareness program to make people aware of the consequences. Most (94.08%) of the respondents knew about passive smoking in this study. It is not possible to establish a general theory which will be accepted undoubtedly, because the respondent numbers were very low due to the time limitation. So there are chances of doing further studies on this topic.