Hence the tobacco control efforts directed towards peers, family members and school personnel and their involvement is crucial to reduce tobacco use among adolescents. The details they offer on how smoking functions in daily life for many women points to some of the issues and approaches required from smoking cessation interventions. Study findings were shared with the participating educational institutions in form of a factsheet. In most Western populations, smoking manufactured cigarettes among women emerged some years after smoking cigarettes among men had taken hold [ 11 ]. It is beyond the scope of this study to explain complex interplay of many factors that may shape adolescents' perceptions about smokers in society.
Interpretation of responses under 'others' category provides interesting insights regarding social, cultural, and political perceptions about smokers. National Center for Biotechnology Information , U. Greaves L. This scenario appears to fit into the prevailing social construct of gender and tobacco use in Asian countries where tobacco use is often linked to expression of masculinity while having strong social sanction against female smoking [ 10 — 14 ]. Opium smoking later spread with Chinese immigrants and spawned many infamous opium dens in China towns around South and Southeast Asia and Europe. Dr Eleazar Duncon, , wrote [27] that tobacco "
