In a prospective survey, conducted by Heart
Care Foundation of India among school going girls, 26% girls said that they
would never marry a smoker. The survey included 195 school girls, belonging to
class X-A, aged 15-16 years, from 16 Convent Schools in Delhi
Speaking on the occasion, Padma Shri and Dr. B C Roy
National Awardee Dr K K Aggarwal President Heart Care Foundation of India said
that 72% girls answered that if they come to know that their would-be partner
was a smoker, they would insist upon the partner to stop smoking before the
marriage. Only 2% said that they would agree to marry as the fact that their
partner smoked did not matter to them.
None of the girls smoked cigarettes or
consumed tobacco products. However, 26% were exposed to passive smoking in
their house. Of these, 80% had objected about it to their family members. The
remaining 20% said that though they wanted to intervene but could not because
of fear.
Fifty-eight percent girls agreed that they would object if
someone was smoking in public in front of them. However, 38% girls said that
instead of objecting they would rather remove themselves from the smoking area
and move to a non-smoking place. Only 4% girls said that they did not care if
somebody around them was smoking.
Ninety-five percent girls agreed that they would not begin
to smoke on peer pressure from a friend or a boyfriend, even if they insisted
on a single casual cigarette smoking. But, 5% girls said that they would be
willing to do so to show their friends and their boyfriends that they too were
modern.
Eighty-six percent participants were convinced that smoking
is injurious to health. But, 14% girls felt that smoking helps in reducing
depression. Also, 2% girls said that if they see doctors smoking in public,
they would change their perception that smoking is bad for the health.
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