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KMID : 0613620120320040605
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Health Social Welfare Review
2012 Volume.32 No. 4 p.605 ~ p.630
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The Effect of Active Smoking and Second-hand Smoke on Wheezing and Asthma among Korean Adolescents
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Cho Kyung-Sook
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Abstract
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This research is aimed at measuring the effect of active smoking and SHS (second-hand smoke) on wheezing and asthma among Korean adolescents by using data from the 2011 Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey. Of a total of 75,643 students analysed, about 40% were exposed to SHS, 12% were current smokers, and 9% were those who had been diagnosed with asthma From the result of logistic regression analysis to examine the effect of active smoking and SHS on wheezing and asthma in this study, the amount of smoking and the amount of SHS were significant factors for “wheezing ever”, “current wheezing”, “asthma ever”, and “current asthma”. The possibility of “wheezing ever” increased significantly according to the amount of smoking (less than 1 cigarette/day OR=1.24, 2∼9 cigarettes/day OR=1.61, more than 10 cigarettes/day OR=2.11) compared with non-smokers and according to the amount of SHS (1∼4 days/week OR=1.16, more than 5 days/week OR=1.30) compared with non-SHS. The possibility of current wheezing increased significantly according to the amount of smoking (less than 1 cigarette/day OR=1.45, 2∼9 cigarettes/day OR=2.12, more than 10 cigarettes/day OR=3.13) compared with non-smokers and according to the amount of SHS (1∼4 days/week OR=1.11, more than 5 days/week OR=1.39) compared with non-SHS. The amount of smoking (more than 10 cigarettes/day vs. non-smokers OR=1.37) and the amount of SHS (more than 5days/week vs. not SHS OR=1.10) effected significantly on the possibility of asthma ever. The amount of smoking (less than 1 cigarette/day vs. non-smokers OR=1.39, 2∼9 cigarettes/day OR=1.38, more than 10 cigarettes/day OR=2.82) and the amount of SHS (more than 5 days/week vs. not SHS OR=1.27) influenced significantly on the possibility of current asthma. In conclusion, adolescents’s smoking and SHS can raise the possibility of wheezing and asthma. Therefore, policy makers need to enforce policies that help adolescents prevent from exposing to SHS including homes and public places like PC rooms, parks, bus stops and streets as well as quit smoking
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KEYWORD
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Smoking, Second-hand Smoke(SHS), Quit Smoking, Wheezing, Asthma
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