Findings Of HDI And IISD Call There Are Indonesian Students Start Smoking Since PAUD

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JAKARTA - Research conducted by the Muhammadiyah Student Association (IPM) and the Indonesia Institute for Social Development (IISD) shows that there are Indonesian students who have started smoking for the first time since they were in PAUD.

"As many as 0.28 percent of our respondents out of a total of 1,275 respondents said that the first time they smoked was when they were PAUD," said IPM General Chairperson Nashir Efendi in a media discussion entitled "Outlook Data for Student Cigarettes 2022" at the PP Muhammadiyah Da'wah Building, Jakarta, Wednesday. February 8th, confiscated by Antara.

IPM and IISD together with University Researcher Prof. Dr. Hamka (UHAMKA) previously conducted research on the 2022 Indonesian Student Cigarette Outlook Data with a total of 1,275 respondents from 175 districts/cities.

This survey was conducted on respondents who were junior high school/equivalent and high school/equivalent students in the period between September 4 to 16, 2022 through the google form.

In detail, the 1,275 respondents covered 638 men and 637 women aged 11 to 19 years and sit in class between seven and 11.

From the survey results, it turned out that 0.28 percent of the total 1,275 respondents admitted that they smoked for the first time when they were PAUD, while the majority of respondents, 22.25 percent tried smoking for the first time at the age of 15.

"For children, the first time smoking with the highest percentage is since the seventh grade, which is 2.54 percent followed by a sixth grade of 1.41 percent," said Nashir.

The type of cigarette consumed by 67.65 percent of respondents was conventional cigarettes while 1.47 percent of respondents smoked electrically while 30.88 percent of respondents consumed both electric and conventional cigarettes.

In this research, it was also known that the majority of respondents, namely 46.31 percent, knew cigarettes because of the influence of friends, who even 2.94 respondents claimed to know cigarettes from their parents.

Of the 1,275 respondents, 63.97 percent of them have parents who are active smokers, while the remaining 36.03 percent of the respondents are not smokers.

Meanwhile, the existence of a stress condition was the main motive that encouraged the majority of respondents, namely 29.41 percent to smoke while 24.26 percent of the respondents were curious about the second position.

Even 7.35 percent of respondents admitted that they smoked for the sake of solidarity both with the environment and with friends.

"For the motive to feel cool is experienced by 0.74 percent of respondents, because they are intimidated 2.21 percent, because they need 3.68 percent and because of solidarity 7.35 percent," said Nashir.

Then, as many as 48.53 percent of respondents said they spent one to five cigarettes per day while for 11 to 20 cigarettes per day it was only done by 5.15 percent of respondents.

"In the perspective of how to buy cigarettes, students buy cigarettes in the head, which is 86.77 percent, which is large compared to those who buy the package, which is 13.23 percent," he said.

In addition, 75 percent of respondents said they had smoked at home while the remaining 25 percent never smoked at home.

However, the respondents who were students were orderly enough not to smoke at school, which was 67.65 percent of respondents, while the remaining 32.35 percent were still desperate to smoke at school.

This fact shows that the implementation of the Non-Smoking Area (KTR) is not fully implemented because there are findings in the educational environment that there are still those who sell cigarettes.

Finally, this research also found the fact that as many as 78.43 percent of respondents claimed to have been exposed to cigarette smoke in the past month.

This number is large as the level of exposure occurs in public places such as playgrounds, which is 54.98 percent of respondents, public places 34.82 percent of respondents, schools 29.8 percent of respondents, places of worship 16.08 percent of respondents and houses 49.33 percent of respondents.

"Again, our education does not guarantee the sterilization of health because here there are still cases where students smoke at school," he said.