Prevalence of tobacco smoking among school teachers in Botswana

Table 2 Prevalence of smoking among school teachers reported from international studies

Country	Participants	Number of participants	Response rate (%)^a	Smokers (%)	Ex-smokers (%)	Never smoked (%)	Year^b	Authors
India	Primary school teachers		400*	14.5			2013	Savadi et al.[15]
Malaysia	Secondary school teachers		495*	7.8			2012	Al-Naggar et al.[9]
Tunisia		800	92.4	17.8			2011	Harrabi et al.[17]
Bangladesh	Secondary school teachers		559*	17			2011	Rahman et al.[16]
Turkey	Primary school teachers		468*	58.1	36.1	5.8	2008	Unsal et al.[21]
Tunisia	Primary and secondary school teachers	402	89.1	29.3			2006	Abdelaziz et al.[19]
Yemen	Secondary school teachers		317*	8			2006	Bin Ghouth et al.[8]
Kenya	Primary school teachers	910	87.9	7	8.4	84.6	2001	Kwamanga et al.[11]
Malaysia	Secondary school teachers	180	180*	40.6			2001	Naing & Ahmad [23]
Japan	Kindergarten, elementary and secondary school teachers	16000	87.5	44.7 Male			2000	Ohida et al.[26]
Japan	Kindergarten, elementary and secondary school teachers	16000	87.5	3.1 Female			2000	Ohida et al.[26]
Spain	Primary and secondary school teachers	8000	38.1	29.7			2000	Barrueco et al.[20]
Syria	Primary and secondary school teachers		90	52.1 Male			2000	Maziak et al.[22]
Syria	Primary and secondary school teachers		90	12.3 Female			2000	Maziak et al.[22]
Malaysia	Secondary school teachers	5112	63	20			1994	Bin Yaacob & Bin Harum [18]
Bahrain	Primary and secondary school teachers	1284	89	7	3.1	89.9		Alnasir [14]

^aResponse rate of the study (*Total number of respondents listed as the response rate was not provided), ^bPublication year.

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