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Tobacco Control Law awareness, enforcement, and compliance among high school students in Myanmar

In Myanmar, the Control of Smoking and Consumption of Tobacco Products Law (Tobacco Control Law; TCL), which covers the prohibition of sale of tobacco to minors and all forms of tobacco advertisement, was enacted in 2006. This study aimed to examine the awareness of the TCL among high school student...

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Autores principales: Nyi Latt, Nyi, Mon Saw, Yu, Myat Cho, Su, Kariya, Tetsuyoshi, Yamamoto, Eiko, Hamajima, Nobuyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Nagoya University 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6125651/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30214087
http://dx.doi.org/10.18999/nagjms.80.3.379
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author Nyi Latt, Nyi
Mon Saw, Yu
Myat Cho, Su
Kariya, Tetsuyoshi
Yamamoto, Eiko
Hamajima, Nobuyuki
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description In Myanmar, the Control of Smoking and Consumption of Tobacco Products Law (Tobacco Control Law; TCL), which covers the prohibition of sale of tobacco to minors and all forms of tobacco advertisement, was enacted in 2006. This study aimed to examine the awareness of the TCL among high school students. A cross-sectional study was conducted in November 2015. Participants were 1,339 high school students (554 boys and 785 girls) from two regions and two states of Myanmar. Data were collected using anonymous self-administered questionnaires and revealed that 78.0% of boys and 86.5% of girls responded the sale of tobacco products in or within 100 feet from school, and 83.4% of boys had ever seen someone selling tobacco products to minors. More than half of the students had ever seen minors selling or distributing tobacco products, and had knowledge about the TCL, while only 9.7% knew about the penalties. The adjusted odds ratio (95% confidence interval) of awareness of the TCL was 2.12 (1.35–3.31) for students who had ever received tobacco products free of charge, or seen/heard about their distribution free of charge, 1.86 (1.20–2.89) for current smokeless tobacco users, and 0.58 (0.43–0.77) for students who had ever seen someone selling tobacco products to minors. The majority of high school students did not know that the violation of the TCL could be punished with a fine and/or imprisonment. These findings suggest that awareness of the TCL was very low among high school students, highlighting that TCL enforcement and compliance, and tobacco-related health education programs are not satisfactory in Myanmar.
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spelling pubmed-61256512018-09-13 Tobacco Control Law awareness, enforcement, and compliance among high school students in Myanmar Nyi Latt, Nyi Mon Saw, Yu Myat Cho, Su Kariya, Tetsuyoshi Yamamoto, Eiko Hamajima, Nobuyuki Nagoya J Med Sci Original Paper In Myanmar, the Control of Smoking and Consumption of Tobacco Products Law (Tobacco Control Law; TCL), which covers the prohibition of sale of tobacco to minors and all forms of tobacco advertisement, was enacted in 2006. This study aimed to examine the awareness of the TCL among high school students. A cross-sectional study was conducted in November 2015. Participants were 1,339 high school students (554 boys and 785 girls) from two regions and two states of Myanmar. Data were collected using anonymous self-administered questionnaires and revealed that 78.0% of boys and 86.5% of girls responded the sale of tobacco products in or within 100 feet from school, and 83.4% of boys had ever seen someone selling tobacco products to minors. More than half of the students had ever seen minors selling or distributing tobacco products, and had knowledge about the TCL, while only 9.7% knew about the penalties. The adjusted odds ratio (95% confidence interval) of awareness of the TCL was 2.12 (1.35–3.31) for students who had ever received tobacco products free of charge, or seen/heard about their distribution free of charge, 1.86 (1.20–2.89) for current smokeless tobacco users, and 0.58 (0.43–0.77) for students who had ever seen someone selling tobacco products to minors. The majority of high school students did not know that the violation of the TCL could be punished with a fine and/or imprisonment. These findings suggest that awareness of the TCL was very low among high school students, highlighting that TCL enforcement and compliance, and tobacco-related health education programs are not satisfactory in Myanmar. Nagoya University 2018-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6125651/ /pubmed/30214087 http://dx.doi.org/10.18999/nagjms.80.3.379 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view the details of this license, please visit (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30214087
http://dx.doi.org/10.18999/nagjms.80.3.379
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