Perokok Wanita dalam Perspektif Demografi dan Kejadian Penyakit di Indonesia

Background: A lot of disease's occurrence has been caused by smoking which exclusively happened to women, especially due to their health reproductive. The increasing tobacco's user among women caused more complexity problems,either on individual's health problems, infant's secureness, economic's and social's problems, and family's health problems. World Health Organization had been made the increasing acts against tobacco on women user as priority. Methods:This study is an advanced analysis from Riskesdas 2007 that has been purposed to get a descriptive of relation between social status and disease's occurence on women's smoker in Indonesia. Data collected with cross sectional method. Results: Showed that the majority of women's smoker were on the age 45 to 54 years, marital status married, not educated, work as farmers/fishers/labors, on rural domicile, and on low level economic status. Respiratory diseases which the most happened caused by smoking was infection upper respiratory (ISPA) than asthma, tuberculosis, and pneumonia. Degenerative disease which the most happened caused by smoking was hypertension than cardiovascular disease and stroke. Government should make the strategic policy to protect women from active and or passive smoker. more seriously. Health promotion about negative effect of smoke must be increased, especially for women and for community in general