Application of community models in an effort to control smoking behavior

Abstract

Smoking is a serious threat to global health, around 1.3 billion tobacco users have nearly 6 million people who die each year due to diseases that arise from tobacco use. Smoking behavior not only can trigger NCDs (Non-Communicable Disease) but it also has an effect on economic problems, the more cigarettes consumed, the higher the costs that will be incurred due to health care and the cost of death due to diseases that arise from smoking behavior. Comprehensive smoking behavior problems which are caused not only by psychological and pharmacological factors but also social and environmental needs a community approach to control these behaviors.

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