Prevalence of smoking among school adolescents in Khartoum State

From 29 June to 29 September 2011, a three-month cross-sectional school-based survey was conducted at Khartoum elementary and junior high schools.

This research aims to evaluate the smoking rate of young people at school age and their associated personal and social environmental factors. We recruit young people using two step probability sampling method. In the first stage of sampling, the PSU is a school and the probability of being selected is proportional to the number of students enrolled. In the second stage, the sample of the selected school was selected and 910 men were selected from 19 schools (11 public schools and 8 private schools) and qualified as young people aged 11 to 17 .

College teenagers are excluded. Use self-managed questionnaire including Core Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) and other problems

Permission to conduct the test was obtained from the principal who conducted the test. Analyze data using SPSS and Microsoft Excel (Office 2007)

Reducing the current prevalence of smoking in adolescence to 16% is one of the goals to guide health indicators. To achieve this goal in 2010, young people across the country will reduce smoking by 54%. Florida data has started to implement a comprehensive tobacco control program and it shows that this reduction is possible

Smoking rates in adults and adolescents in the United States have declined over the past decade, but quite a few young people continue to smoke. The surgeon's warning issued in 1964 was the main factor in this change. In 1965, about 45% of Americans smoked, but now the tobacco smoker's prevalence is less than 25% of adults. Because the trajectory of youth smoking patterns is slightly different, the smoking rate of high school students began to increase in the early 1990s and did not begin to decline until the end of the decade. Even today's current smoking trend continues, 5.6 million young people are still prematurely dead today. According to economist Dr. Kenneth Warner, the tobacco industry needs 5,000 new young smokers per day to maintain the total number of smokers.

Overall, about one-third of high school students in the United States use smoking or smokeless tobacco. In the 1970s, the smoking rate of teenagers in the United States sharply declined, but this decline was remarkably slowed especially among white men in the 1980s. Women's teenagers in the 1980s were more likely to smoke than male adolescents, but women and male young people are likely to smoke as well. Male teenagers are more likely to use smokeless tobacco products than women, and about 20% of high school student men report their current use, but only about 1% of women are reported not. Caucasian teenagers smoke more than black people and Hispanic teenagers and are more likely to use smokeless tobacco