Awareness of E-Cigarettes among Student in Malaysian Public University

Rafidah Abd Razak Et.Al

doi:10.17762/turcomat.v12i3.975

Abstract

Purpose: The intention of this research is to develop understanding of e-cigarette awareness towards students in university. Method: The data collection method used in this study is online survey using Google form applications via social media platforms. The respondents consist of 304 students from Malaysian public university located in north Malaysia. This survey consists of 14 questions including the demographic question. Result: Most of the respondents (n = 304) were aware of the impact of e-cigarettes and 124 (40.79 percent) had used an e-cigarette previously. E-cigarette awareness is also high among female students compared to male students.Conclusion: Importantly, attention needs to be paid to the use of e-cigarettes. Besides that, government law enforcement needs to be restructured to monitor the e-cigarette product from direct to adult access. Institutions also need to play a role in exposing students to awareness of e-cigarettes by increasing awareness programs. Overall, this study suggests a further research on this area to be conducted in a large scope of population in Malaysia and demographic locations.

Highlights

There are many studies on smoking that cause multiple severe illnesses (Cheah et al, 2019)
This study aims to identify the awareness of the students in university on the impact of smoking ecigarettes, the effects of e-cigarettes towards health and the factor that causes the use of e-cigarettes
This study reported the awareness of e-cigarettes, which shows that half of the respondents (63.16 percent) have never used e-cigarettes and it was greater among male respondents

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Introduction

There are many studies on smoking that cause multiple severe illnesses (Cheah et al, 2019). The World Health Organization (World Health Organization, 2018) stated that there are more than eight billion smokers around the world who were killed by smoking. An e-cigarette is a device operated by using a battery that produces steam results for breathing in which is the mixture containing nicotine (Tomashefski et al, 2016). The objective is to establish a feeling of inhalation of tobacco smoke that is in a variety of shapes, for example USB drives and pens (Brazier Y, 2020). Suppliers advertise e-cigarettes as devices for reducing or who are trying to stop smoking, but are labelled by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as tobacco products (Brazier Y, 2020)

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