title: Smoking habit among Bangladesh Secretariat staff.
abstract: The paper assesses the smoking behaviour among the Bangladesh Secretariat Staff, Dhaka. The findings are based on interviewing 2008 respondents of whom 775 (38.6%) were reported to be smokers. Amongst the three categories of the respondents selected for interview, the prevalence of smoking was the highest (49%) for the respondents belonging to the lowest socio-economic group. The mean age at commencement of smoking was in the neighbourhood of 18 years. Majority of the smokers (76.5%) were motivated by their friends. Advertisement did not appear to have any influence of smoking. Nearly 17% were self motivated. Respondents' current age, level of education and employment status were found to have strong influence on smoking habit.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, University of Dhaka.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Islam
authors.forename: M N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Islam
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Khanam
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001459:Bangladesh / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors