Levantamento randomizado sobre a prevalência de tabagismo nos maiores municípios do Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Leitão Filho, Fernando Sergio
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Galduróz, José Carlos Fernandes [UNIFESP], Noto, Ana Regina [UNIFESP], Nappo, Solange Aparecida [UNIFESP], Carlini, Elisaldo Araujo [UNIFESP], Nascimento, Oliver Augusto [UNIFESP], Santos, Sérgio Ricardo [UNIFESP], Jardim, José Roberto [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1806-37132009001200007; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/5380
• topic: Smoking; Tobacco use disorder; Smoking cessation; Tabagismo; Transtorno por uso de tabaco; Abandono do hábito de fumar

OBJECTIVE: To provide access to the results of a randomized cross-sectional study conducted by the Brazilian Center for Information on Psychotropic Drugs in 2001. METHODS: This survey involved a random sample of individuals ranging from 12 to 65 years of age and residing in the 107 largest cities (over 200,000 inhabitants) in Brazil, which represented 27.7% of the Brazilian population, estimated to be 169,799,170 inhabitants at the time. A total of 8,589 interviews were conducted. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration questionnaire, translated and adapted for use in Brazil, was used in the interviews. RESULTS: Of the sample as a whole, 41.1% of the interviewees reported having experimented with tobacco products. The prevalence of daily smokers was 17.4% (20.3% among males and 14.8% among females). We found that 9% of the sample (10.1% of the men and 7.9% of the women) were nicotine-dependent, according to the criteria of the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse. CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of current smoking in the 107 largest cities of Brazil is significantly lower in this decade than was the national prevalence at the end of last century.