Comparative Study of Tobacco Control Policy in Smoking Behaviour Between Lithuania and Indonesia

Abstract

Indonesia is one of the countries that have a large number of smokers in the world and it keeps increasing every year. Lithuania compared to other European Union countries, is slightly bigger than the European Union average of smoking prevalence. Both of these countries have implemented Tobacco Control Policies for quite a long time. Three research objectives in this research are to review and compare Lithuania and Indonesia’s Tobacco Control Policies; to analyze the situation of smoking behavior in Lithuania and Indonesia; and to analyze the implementation and its impact on smoking behavior of Tobacco Control Policy in Lithuania and Indonesia. Qualitative methods are used to analyze the document for the policy and literature analysis to acquire information about the situation of smoking cases and the implementation of the policy in both countries. This study aims to accomplish a comparative analysis of the Tobacco Control Policy between Lithuania and Indonesia and its impact on the rise of smoking cases. The Indonesian government has set a good Tobacco Control Policy but the implementation of the policy it’s not strict and there are a lot of tobacco product advertisements in Indonesia, this could be the reason why Indonesia has so many smokers and increasing every year. Lithuania has stricter regulations and implementation, and the smokers are decreasing every year, but they have a new group of smoker which is youth smoker that growing rapidly nowadays.