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Written by: Lin Oli
2021-06-16 12:30
Last update date: 2021-06-16 12:30
Smoking is harmful to health. The Department of Health has designated this month as "Quit Smoking Month", calling on smokers to quit smoking in order to reduce the risk of smoking-related diseases and death.
"The University of Hong Kong Youth Smoking Cessation Hotline" (Smoking Cessation Hotline) survey shows that the number of young people who have smoked e-cigarettes or heated cigarettes has increased in recent years, and the Census and Statistics Department also shows that thousands of high school students have smoked before the age of 7 and the situation is worthwhile attention.
The smoking cessation hotline survey showed that the proportion of Hong Kong adolescents aged 25 or below who had used e-cigarettes or heated cigarettes in 2019-2020 was a record high. 243 out of 283 people had used new tobacco products, the proportion was 85.9%, compared with 2017-2018 Annual increase of 28.5 percentage points.
Asked about the reasons for using new tobacco products, more than half of the teenagers interviewed said that because they were curious, nearly four adults were influenced by friends.
The combined use of traditional cigarettes and e-cigarettes/heated cigarettes among young smokers is also on the rise, reaching as high as 51.2% in 2019-2020.
In terms of perception and perception of e-cigarettes, most people agree that smoking e-cigarettes is less prone to addiction than ordinary cigarettes, accounting for 55.3%.
However, because e-cigarettes also contain nicotine, and even some e-cigarettes have higher nicotine content than ordinary cigarettes, smoking e-cigarettes is also prone to addiction.
In the perception and perception of heating smoke, 48.1% agreed that heating smoke is less harmful to the body than traditional smoke.
However, the WHO pointed out that there is currently no evidence that heated smoke is less harmful than traditional tobacco products.
In addition, the Food and Health Bureau commissioned the School of Public Health of the University of Hong Kong to conduct a survey on student smoking from October 2018 to July 2019.
Among the approximately 18,000 primary 4 to 6 students in 73 elementary schools, 4350 have smoked cigarettes, that is, 1 in 4 high school students has smoked cigarettes, another 2530 have smoked electronic cigarettes, and 1510 have smoked heated cigarettes. .
Calculated based on the age of first smoking cigarettes, 2,160 people had smoked at the age of 7 or before, of which 65.7% were boys.
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