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PCBS: 488 Thousand Smoker Aged 10 Years and over in Palestinian Territory
smokers in the Palestinian Territory.
In a press release on the World Day to stop smoking, PCBS revealed that prevalence of smoking increases by age, 0.9% for those aged 10-15, followed by 9.0% for 16-19 years and reaching the highest 31.3% for 40-49 years then decline to 15.5% for those aged 60 years and over.
"Data revealed that smoking among rural areas is higher than those in urban and camps at 19.1% and 18.3% and 16.8% respectively. Qalqiliya governorate registered the highest smoking percentage at 23.1% among other West Bank governorates, while Gaza governorate was the highest at 15.0% among other Gaza Strip governorate, "PCBS said.
It added that 487,976 sm in the year 2006, distributed 20.9% in the West Bank and 13.7% in the Gaza Strip, and 34.7% for males and 2.1% for females.
Data showed that the mean age of start smoking among young aged 15-29 years was 16 years. And 26.1% of them started smoking at age 10-14 years, while 61.2% started smoking between 15-19 years, and 1.5% of these young people started before the age of ten.
PCBS pointed out that about the reasons that led to such a practice, the data showed that about 44.0% of the young people who smoke was result of peers and friends pressure, and quite the same percentage refer that to liking the trials of explore practicing smoking, in Gaza Strip 13.2% refer that to psychological and family problems compared with 7.0% in the West Bank.
PCBS concluded that data revealed that 15.5% of the elderly aged 60 years and over are smoking, of which 16.4% in the West Bank and 13.4% in Gaza Strip. The data indicated that about 65.0% of elderly smokers practice this habit for more than 20 years, and the total years of smoking was 1,541,711 years. Data showed that 22.0% ever smoked elderly stopped smoking.