PREVALENSI DAN RISIKO MEROKOK TERHADAP PENYAKIT PARU DI POLIKLINIK PARU RUMAH SAKIT UMUM PUSAT SANGLAH DENPASAR

Abstract

Cigarette smoking is the single largest preventable cause of premature death in the world today. Estimates of the number
of yearly deaths from smoking-related causes exceed 400,000 (about one-sixth of all deaths). About 23% of the U.S. population
in the year 2000 smoked, and another 22% used to smoke. United Kingdom reported 12.5 million of adult smokers in 2003 (about
26% of UK population). Indonesia also reported very high prevalence of cigarette smoking (about 50 ! 70%). While in Tenganan
village, Bali, smoking prevalence reported about 26.3%. Smoking cessation is the key point in managing patients with tobacco
related diseases, especially lung diseases.
We conducted a cross sectional study to Þ nd out smoking prevalence and smoking contributions to lung diseases among
patients in pulmonology outpatient clinic of Sanglah hospital, Bali. Among 108 patients, we found 77 patients (71.3%) exposed
to cigarette smoking. Among these patients, we found 11 (10.2%) patients still smoking, 55 (50.9%) were ex-smokers, and 11
(10.2%) were passive smoker. Among active smokers and ex-smokers, we found 34 patients (31.5%) were light smoker, 25
(2.1%) were moderate smoker, and 7 (6.5%) were heavy smoker according to Brinkman index. The most frequent lung problem
found in this study was lung TB (42.6%), while smoking exposure happens in 76.1% patients. As the conclusion, smoking
prevalence is high among patients come to pulmonology outpatient clinic of Sanglah hospital.