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TERENGGANU GSHS 2012 Discussion

The prevalence of students who were currently smoke cigarettes and other tobacco products were
each higher than the national prevalence (14.1% vs 11.5% and 6.4% vs 5.5%, respectively). Among
those who ever smoked, about three quarters of them _rst tried acigarette before the age of 14 years.
The prevalence of exposure to secondhand smoke from people smoking in their presence and
reported parents or guardians who used any form of tobacco were each higher than the national
_gures (46.9 vs 41.6% and 45.8 vs 40.2%, respectively). Among students who were non-smokers, the
susceptibility to smoking was higher than the national prevalence (11.3% vs 9.6%).

Most of the violent behaviour assessed in this survey among the students in Terengganu was noted
to be lower than the national levels, with the exception of serious injury at least once in the past one
year which was higher than the national prevalence (38.2% vs 34.9%).

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