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Fig. 3-21 60 Trend of second hand exposure rate of senior and vocational high school students at home Male Female Nearly 30% of senior and vocational high school students are in the risk of second-hand smoke exposure due to smoking elders at home. (29.8%) Overall 48.0 40 % 42.5 39.9 41.2 39.6 38.738.1 39.8 38.5 37.5 2011 2012 2013 32.2 33.5 32.7 32.6 20 0 2005 2006 2014 2015 2016 2017 48.9 45.4 45.3 42.5 44.6 41.6 40.5 2007 2008 2009 2010 January 2009, new regulations of Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act 49.3 32 33 32.4 32.2 30.329.8 29.3 2018 Year 31.7 32.4 31.9 31.6 Note: 1. Data source: "Taiwan Global Youth Tobacco Survey" by HPA; relevant data of teenager smoking; the subjects of analysis were senior and vocational high school students. 2. Definition of second-hand smoke exposure in campus: refers to that someone has smoked in front of the interviewee at home within the past one week. 3. Survey question: In the past 7 days, how many days did you see someone smoke in front of you while you were at home? 4. For the surveys conducted in 2005 to 2010, the method of iteration for every other year was adopted for students of "junior high school" and "grades 1 to 3 of senior high school, vocational high school and five-year junior college. Relevant factors affecting the smoking behavior of teenagers 2018 survey results reveal that the smoking rates of junior high school and senior high school students having at least one of the parents smoking at home are 4.4% and 11.7% respectively, which are approximately 2 to 3 times (junior high school students 1.4 %, senior and vocational school students 4.9%) higher than the smoking rates of students having none of the parents smoking (junior high school 3.2 times, senior and vocational high school students 2.4 times). In addition, for those exposed to second-hand smoke at home, their past smoking rate, present smoking rate and possible smoking rate are both higher than those not exposed to second-hand smoke. Such result indicates that to teenagers, family member smoking may indirectly encourage smoking behavior. Therefore, a smoke-free family shall be particularly emphasized to urge parents to quit smoking immediately in order to establish role-models such that teenagers can be prevented from losing competitiveness due to smoking. The surveys also indicate that teenagers with a greater number of friends smoke, their current smoking rate are also higher. For example, the smoking rate of junior high school and senior and vocational high school students having lots of friends smoke is nearly 40% (junior high school 38.0%, senior and vocational high school 50.8%), which is more than 11 times (junior high school 21.2 times, senior and vocational high school 11.6 times) higher than the smoking rate of students having no or few friends (junior high school students 1.8%, senior and vocational high school students 4.4%). For non-smoking students, the surveys indicate that 8.9% of junior high school students and 9.4% of senior and vocational high school students express that they will smoke when friends offer cigarettes in the next one year. In other words, a lot of teenage students are deeply influenced by the attitude of smoking of friends. Parents should care about the lives of their children, spending of pocket money, academic performance, conditions of friends made etc. regularly and shall also talk to children about how to keep away from those offering smokes such that when there is any abnormal people, time, place, object and method, immediate understanding and handling shall be made in order to help children to keep away from those hazardsous factors of smoking and to successfully quit smoking. 117 () Research, Monitoring, and International Exchange