GAMBARAN TINGKAT PENGETAHUAN DAN SIKAPA MASYARAKAT TERHADAP BAHAYA MEROKOK DI RW 17 KELURAHAN SIMPANG TIGA KECAMATAN BUKIT RAYA

Abstract

The purpose of this research want to know about description of community knowledge and attitude on attend the dangers of smoking. The research used simple descriptive method. There are 60 respondens which was collected by cluster sampling. The research was was collected by questios that consist of 40 questions, 20 questions want to know about the community knowledge and 20 questions want to know about the community attitude. The analysis of research used univariate and frequency distribution. The result shew that there are 73.3 % of samples have high knowledge on attend the dangers of smoking and 50% of community have same positive and negative attitude. Based on this result, the researcher suggested for the community to can have a more positive attitude towards all the dangers of cigarettes.