Investigation on cigarette smoking in rural area population over 40 years of Guangming town of Shanghai city

  Objective   To investigate and analyze status of cigarette smoking in Guangming Town over 40 years population of Shanghai city.

  Methods   Acros-ssectional study was careied out in a cluster sampling population over 40 years.Questionnaires were designed for nose to nose investigatin, which included general information and related situations of cigarette smoking.Ex posure rate of cigzarette smoking, passive smoking were estimated and its distributional characteristics of age and gender were described.

  Results   Exposure rates of cigarette smoking was 86.7% in male and 0.2% in female(average 36.4%, P < 0.01).In smoking male population, numbers of cigarettes consumed per day of one person was 17.79±8.53.The passive smoking exposure rate in male and female were 84.2% and 58.4%, respectively.91.2% male passive smokers exposed themselves to working place or public.However, 90.0% female passive smoker exposed themselves to family.

  Conclusion   Among rural area over 40 years population in Shanghai city, smoking exposure rate in male and passive smoking rate both in male and female are in a considerable level.