SMOKING IN THEWORKPLACE WITHIN AWOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIAL COLLECTIVITY IN THE COUNTY OF BIHOR. PERCEPTIONS AND REGULATIONS
Abstract:
Social marketing formative research within
a programme of Workplace Health Promotion has
assessed and described perceptions, habits and
practices of smokers in the workplace, within the
context of the smoking ban regulations, so as to draw
up intervention programmes in order to change the
unhealthy habits. The associated exposure to professional
irritants (ashes, gases, vapours) and tobacco triggers
a synergic action, potentiating their effects on the
respiratory system. The quantitative study has made
use of a questionnaire applied to a sample group of
215 individuals working in a wood processing
company in the county of Bihor, between January-
February 2008. The statistical analysis was performed
with the S.P.S.S. 15.0 programme pack. The study
has revealed an increased prevalence of the habit of
smoking in the workplace during working hours,
especially in the “specially designated” places; although
the general perception of both smokers and non-smokers
related to those who smoke is that most of them do not
smoke.
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