Un progetto di educazione alla salute sul fumo di tabacco in un campione di donne in ambiente di lavoro : un cross sectional study

The aim of the study is to analyze the smoking attitudes of women in their working envi-ronment before and after a prevention campaign on the damage of smoking. 831 question-naires were administered, before and after the educational intervention, with special attention to smoking habits and to the behaviours typical of the working circle. 26% of the interviewees is an active smoker, 14% is a former smoker, 56% started smoking around the age of 15-20, 42% of the women smokes at the presence of their children. 81% is conscious of the damage caused by smoke on the foetus, only 9% declared smoking during the pregnancy.

Only 7% of the interviewees smoked during lactation. 44% of smokers do not consider preventing from smoking in the presence of non-smoking colleagues, 36% usually smokes in working hours, 21% do not ask for permission when smoking in the presence of colleagues. 48% claims that passive smoking can reason minor effects and 21% of smokers claims never tried to stop smoking. 96% of the women declared the necessity of prevention with public campaigns. [Publisher's Text].