Passive smoking prevalence among patients of krasnoyarsk regional oncologic dispensary

• Main Authors: O Yu Kutumova, L I Kononova, E A Dobretsova, A B Shulmin, K M Korotkova, T V Rossiyeva
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: IP Habib O.N. 2016-06-01
• Series: Современная онкология
• Subjects: passive smoking; risk factor; cancer morbidity; lung cancer; genitourinary cancer
• Online Access: https://modernonco.orscience.ru/1815-1434/article/viewFile/27101/pdf

There was conducted a questionnaire survey aimed at defining prevalence of passive smoking among the patients that were undergoing medical treatment at Krasnoyarsk Regional Oncological Dispensary at the time of the survey. The data received were statistically processed. Answering the question “Do you breathe environmental tobacco smoke?” 46,1% of the patients responded that they breathe tobacco smoke contaminated air and 53.9% of the patients do not breathe environmental tobacco smoke. Passive smoking is more common for men (50%) than for women (38.7%). Representatives of age groups “fewer than 30 years old” and “30-39 years old” breathe environmental tobacco smoke more often than others (50% and 53% respectively). They are mostly patients of the thoracic surgical oncology department (72.7%) diagnosed with lung cancer. A half (50%) of passively smoking patients breathe tobacco smoke contaminated air 7 days a week for up to 10 minutes per day (65.4%). It is shown that nearly 285 (73, 3) patients of an oncological clinic, are active and passive smokers. Thus, the conducted researches allow to draw a conclusion that passive inhalation of a tobacco smoke is one of major factors of the increased risk of cancer cases of lungs, and not less significant, than active smoking.