The Impact of the Number of Cigarettes and the Duration of Smoking on the BMI of Students of the Faculty of the Agriculture, Methodist University of Indonesia in 2024

Abstract

Background: Smoke is a major global health problem, causing more than 8 million deaths
every 7 million years as a consequence of the use of tobacco directly and 1.3 million
consequence exposure to cigarette smoke. In Indonesia, the prevalence of smokers aged 10
18 years increased from 7.2% (2013) to 9.1% (2018), making it the third country with the
number of smokers the most. Global Youth Tobacco Survey data (2019) shows that 40.6% of
students aged 13-15 years Once use tobacco, with 19.2% at the moment smoking. Body Mass
Index (BMI) is used To evaluate relative weight to height. Based on Riskesdas 2018, in
Indonesia 9.3% are underweight, 55.3% are typical, 13.6% are overweight, and 25.8% are
obese.
Research purposes: To determine the impact of the number of cigarettes, duration of
smoking, and BMI of students of the Faculty of Agriculture, Indonesian Methodist
University, Medan based on the Brinkman index on students of the Faculty of Agriculture,
University of Indonesia in 2024.
Research methods: This is a study of observational analytics with a design study using a
cross-sectional study.
Research results: This study was primarily found in students consuming several cigarettes
with <9 cigarettes/day, as many as 37 respondents (46.3%), then the duration of smoking was
found in 51 respondents (63.7%) with a duration of smoking <10 years and Body Mass Index
was found 28 respondents (35%) with a body mass index <18.5. There is a relationship
between the number of cigarettes and Body Mass Index with a value of p = 0.045 (p0.05) and
a relationship between the duration of smoking smoke and Index Mass Body with a p-value
of 0.001 (p0.05). The factor with a more significant influence is the number of cigarette
consumption with p-value = 0.013 and OR = 2.4.
Conclusion: There is a meaningful relationship between the number of cigarettes and the
index mass body with a p-value = 0.045, and there is a long relationship between smoking
and Body Mass Index with a p-value of 0.001