Smoking in the workplace: Smoking pattern and attitude to towards smoking policies

Abstract

The acceptability to employee of workplace smoking restriction is an important factor fortheir compliance. This study describe the smoking pattern of workers at the Kota Bharu Department of Health and their attitudes towards smoking restriction at workplace. There were 35.0% male 3.8% if female workers were current smoker. Twenty five percent of the smokers smoke at workplace. Support for the smoking restriction policies with exception of certain areas was strong, with at least 81.5% of the respondents agreeing to the policies. Thus the results shows a generally favourable milieu among health staffs.