Background : Cigarette is a roll of tobacco or clove (about the size of little finger)
that is covered (by palm leaf, paper). Based on the data from the World Health
Organization (WHO), the number of people who died because of cigarette annually
is 6 million people. The tendency of smoking in 15 to 19-year-old teenager in
Indonesia is predicted increasing 6-fold from 7,1% (1995) to 43,3% (2010). Based
on the data from the Riskesdas (2013), the percentage of the 10 to 14-year-old
teenager is 1,4%.
Methods : The design of this research is the analytic category descriptive research
with the cross sectional approachment. The sample is the entire of Permai Pluit
Junior High School student. The students are given the modified GYTS questionnaire
to know the level of knowledge about cigarette, the attitude towards cigarette, and
the smoking behavior.
Result : There is a significant difference of the level of knowledge between male
students and female students (p = 0,048). There is no significant difference of the
attitude towards cigarette and the smoking behavior between male students and
female students (p = 0,465, p = 0,214, respectively). There is no significant
difference of the level of knowledge, the attitude towards cigarette, and the smoking
behavior between the first, the second, and the third graders of junior high school (p
= 1, p = 0,35, p = 1, respectively).
Conclusion : The conclusion of this research is that the Permai Pluit Junior High
School students have enough knowledge about cigarette, positive attitude towards
cigarette, and they don’t smoke. On the comparison of the level of knowledge about
cigarette, there is a significant difference between male students and female students,
but not on the attitude towards cigarette and smoking behavior. . On the comparison
of the level of knowledge about cigarette, the attitude towards cigarette, and smoking
behavior there is no significant difference between the first, the second, and the third
graders of junior high school. |