Prevalence and Correlates of Tobaccco Smoke exposure on the basis of their Gender and Place of Residence: A study on Indonesian Adults

Background: The patterns of smoking addiction or exposure are not same in all places. This study aims to examine the determinants and patterns of current tobacco smoking (CTS) exposure among male and female adults at rural and urban places of residences.

Material and methods: Data set selected for this study covers a nationally representative sample of 8,146 respondents extracted from the Global Adult Tobacco (GATS) Survey-2011 Indonesia. The frequency distribution was used to introduce the response variable along with several independent variables with primary information. The chi-square test was executed to find the association between the study variable with different selected variables. In logistic regression, CTS exposure status of adult’s based on male and female with different places of residence was used as the response variable. Demographic and socioeconomic variables, health knowledge about CTS, attitude and perception of tobacco smoking (TS) restrictions were considered as predictor variables.

Results: Aged male adults (above 44 years old) and females in all age groups were less exposed to tobacco smoking. Only female respondents who were living with large family more than five members had risk to be exposed to CTS but females are less exposed compared to males in both rural and urban regions. Better education, higher wealth index, better health knowledge and practice of no smoking at home were remarkably associated with lower exposing tobacco use in all types of cases.

Conclusions: Prevention and control processes should not be neglected in public health policies. Smoking policy should be constructed everywhere and followed properly by each parts of Indonesia.

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