A large part of the children of Bangladesh are smoking poisoning. One study found that 95 percent of the children of Dhaka City Corporation and adjoining areas have harmful nicotine. The reason for the presence of indirect smoking nicotine

Six natives of the capital's Mirpur area and 479 children of six primary schools in Savar were found to be harmful nicotine in saliva examination. The study was published on December 7 in the Nicotine and Tobacco Research Journal of Oxford, UK . "The primary school children are victims of indirect smoking: A survey in Dhaka, Bangladesh," (Secondhand Smoking Exposure in Primary School, Children: A Survey in Dhaka, Bangladesh) has said that it has become necessary to reduce the impact of indirect smoking on children in Bangladesh.

University of York, UK University of York, University of Edinburgh and Leeds City Council Public Health Department jointly conducted the study. Rumana Haque of Dhaka University professor of economics associated with the research on Sunday, Prothom Alo said, "home father, brother, or anyone else smoke, the affected children. Many cigarettes on the street, buses, shops, hotels, smoke, goes to the baby's body. Our research is based on the effect of this indirect smoker. '

The research results are important and the situation is dangerous, said former director of the National Chest Disease Hospital and renowned physician physician Ali Hossain. He told Prothom Alo , 'The main reason for the child's respiratory and asthma is this indirect smoking. Children, elder brothers or pedestrians who smoke, their victims are children. Without raising mass awareness, there is no way to protect children from this danger.

The smoke that smoke picks up, it enters the body with breathing. This is indirect smoking. In the study article, 40 percent of the world's children are victims of indirect smoking. Many studies have proven the effect of indirect smoking in children's health. In the same environment, the risk of high-risk smoking in children is higher in adults than adults, because children have more respiratory rates than adults. The ability to prevent people smoking in the neighborhood is relatively low.

Research method

Rumana Haque said this study was done with the approval of the Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC). Fifth grade students of 12 schools were included in this. The majority of children were between 11 and 13 years old.

Children's information is taken in two ways. Firstly the children's saliva is collected. These salts are sent to the UK in special arrangements. This saliva is tested in the UK's ABS lab. Rumana Haque said, "The test was done in the United Kingdom because there is no laboratory in the presence of nicotine test in Bangladesh." He said that the presence of nicotine in the body is detected in saline, urine or early hair tests.

The question paper is used for each child as well as saliva testing. 'Do you smoke with someone you live with? Or does your father or mother smoke? '... There was such a question in it.

What is found in the study

Nicotine found in 479 baby loses 453 children. That is 95 percent of children suffering from indirect smoking. Replying to a question, Rumana Huq said, "There is no other source of nicotine entry in the body of the bidi, cigarette smoke. There is no nicotine in cars or factories or other sources. '

Rumana Huq also said that neither he nor his co-workers know of such research in neighboring countries or developing countries. So the situation was not comparable. However, in 2011, the UK's Health and Public Health Journal published in the Lancet said 40 percent of the world's incidence of indirect smokers worldwide. Quotation of that information is in the current article. Compared to him, the situation in Bangladesh is very bad compared to the global situation.

In the study 43 percent of children (208) said that at least one person in his family smoked. 21 percent of children (100 people) said that smoking in the members of their family and guests was prohibited. 87 percent of the children (419) said they have been victims of indirect smoking in public places. It includes stores, smoking indirectly on the street.

Researchers say that the study has been done in a country where there is a law against smokers in the public. World Health Organization's National Professional Officer Syed Mahfuzul Haque said to Prakash Prakash , "Without raising mass awareness, we can not protect children from the effects of indirect smoking. No one should smoke at home even if they can not quit smoking. On the other hand, people can not smoke in the public, so proper action is necessary.