Ten Cities In Our Country Rural Women Workers Smoking Condition And Risk Factor Analysis

Background:Since the implementation of new economical policy (the reform and opening up policy) in our country, there is seeing a floating population of rural to urban migrant workers, especially female migrants. They usually work at low pay or high-risk industries due to poor education. They suffer discrimination, movement, unstable living and working conditions and living in city, females also bear the pressure from the family and child-rearing. These factors will increase the vulnerability of occurring high-risk behaviors, one of the high-risk behaviors is to start smoking. According to review external and internal researches, smoking prevalence among migrant women are higher than non-migrant women, and some external researches report that migrant women are more acceptable for women smoking. It’s unknown that whether the same attitude to women smoking among the rural to urban migrant women of our country. Methods:The data of this paper is from program "Tobacco use control among Chinese women", part of the survey data. The paper will analyze the cigarette use, understanding and attitude to smoking, second-hand smoking and tobacco control and susceptible factors of smoking among rural to urban female workers who work at restaurants or hotels, the subjects must have rural huko and age between18-24years old. Results:1.We collect1886records totally, after delete records that unmatch age range and test data, there are1697effective records, and lost rate is2.0%. In1697effective records, the current smoking rate is3.2%; attempt smoking rate is18.4%, all higher than female national level.2. A half of54current smokers started soming after move to city, the percent of who tasted the first cigarette after move to city is27.4%. Most of current smokers start smoking after have woked in city1or2years.3. High city smoking rate with high current smoking rate among rural to urban migrant young women.4. A half subjects report that their employers provide dormitories, and only25%subjects have medical insurance.5. Subjects who have suffered unwqual treated are almost a quarter, and half of subjects unsatisfied with their work or life.6. Most of subjects understand the harm of smoking and second-hand smoking.7. There is no difference between current smokers, quit smokers and none-smokers, more none-smokers support tobacco control than current smokers (P<0.05).8. Have smoked friends or customers, have seen "female-cigarette" and suffered discrimination will increase the possibility of smoking initial among none-smokers. Smokers who have tried "female-cigarette" and migrant women who first tasted cigarettes after moving to city will be a current smoker more possible than who tasted before move to city. Conclusions:rural to urban migrant young women is a high-risk population of smoking epidemic, especially1-2years after move to city; some subjects have miss understanding on "female-cigarette", especially the current smokers; unequal social status increate the possibility of smoking among subjects. Inhence, the smoking interventions to this population including:1. Advocate knownledges relate to smoking, especially vigilant against "female-cigarette" attractivties;2. Offer free trainings in order to make rural to urban migrant women stay away from smoking;3. Tell them how to fight against the smoking attractive of their friends.