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Exposure to and Attitudes Regarding Secondhand Smoke Among Secondary Students in Taiwan

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	Abstract

The 2003 School Health Act of Taiwan stipulated that school campuses of senior high and below should be smoke free, but data from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey show that the majority of students are exposed to smoke in public and at home. More than 50% of nonsmokers indicated that they had been exposed to secondhand smoke (SHS) in public places, with the exposure rate as high as 90% among smokers. More than 40% of junior and senior high school students were exposed to SHS at home. Support for banning smoking in public places ranged from almost 60% to almost 80%. More than 60% of current smokers and almost 90% of never smokers think that smoke from others is harmful to them. With a clear body of evidence detailing the harmful effects, reduction and eventual elimination of exposure to SHS should be the goal of the tobacco control community.

First published on May 14, 2009, doi:10.1177/1010539509335398

Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health 2009;21:259.

A more recent version of this article appeared on July 1, 2009


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