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KMID : 0378019850280040103
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New Medical Journal
1985 Volume.28 No. 4 p.103 ~ p.110
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Effect of Cigarette Smoking on Pulmonary Function
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崔奉男/Choi, Bong Nam
金鍾浩/鄭耀翰/Kim, Chong Ho/Chung, Yo Han
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Abstract
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Historical analysis of the mortality statistics point up the rising importance of disease associated with smoking cigarettes. The deaths caused by ischemic heart disease; cancer of the lung, larynx, mouth, and pharynx chronic bronchitis; emphysema: and bronchial asthma is fast increasing at all the countries of the world. Furthermore, there is evidence suggesting that smoking is becoming increasingly prevalent among young people, precisely those who should be the prime target of actions designed to limit the spread of this harmful habit.
Because of these trends, this survey was conducted among university students for the purposes of identifying the effect of cigarettes smoking on pulmonary function.
The prevalence of smoking among males was 57.0 percent and the beginning ages of smoking was highest in age of 20(34.0 percent), the prevalence of regular smoking increased sharply between ages 20 and 22.
Most of the student smokers surveyed (34.6 per cent) were smoking ten or less- cigarettes daily, and 50.8 per cent reported inhaling smoke into their throat and 36.3 per cent were not inhale.
The survey found little association between student smoking and levels of parental education, smoker´s scholastic performance, smoking and parental smoking patterns, and smoking and sibling smoking patterns. (p>0. 05) Association was observed between smoking and respiratory problems (p<0. 05) and there were a significant difference between the smokers and exsmokers and nonsmokers in the average peak expiratory flow values and average peak inspiratory flow values. (p<0.01)
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