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Most UAE
students start smoking before 14
Thursday February 03, 2011 12:14:22 PM,
IANS
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Dubai:
More than 80 percent of students in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
start smoking when they are as young as 14 years, a survey has
found.
Tobacco use among teenagers remains a concern for health
authorities as new data shows a quantum leap in the number of
student smokers in the past five years, Khaleej Times reported
citing a global survey.
The study was conducted last year by the health ministry's Global
School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) in coordination with US
Centres for Diseases Control (CDC) and the World Health
Organisation.
The survey of 2,581 people showed that 82.1 percent of students
(both male and female) in the country have tried their first
cigarette before the age of 14 as compared to 39 percent (surveyed
in 2005) who tried their first cigarette at the age of 13 or less.
Male students were more likely to start smoking at an early age at
83.7 percent (39.2 percent in 2005) as compared to female students
whose numbers stood at 79.4 percent, still a significant increase
from the earlier 36.7 percent.
The study also measured dietary behaviour, hygiene, mental health,
physical activity, protective factors, violence and unintentional
injury of students in grades 8, 9, and 10.
A similar survey conducted by the Dubai Health Authority in
private schools showed that 71 percent of the students were
cigarette smokers.
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