Safety and Health at Work Vol. 11 Issue 2 2020
How the Bidi Tobacco Industry Harms Child-workers: Results From a Walk-through and Quantitative Survey (Original Article)
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Safety and Health at Work Vol. 11 Issue 2 2020
How the Bidi Tobacco Industry Harms Child-workers: Results From a Walk-through and Quantitative Survey (Original Article)
How the Bidi Tobacco Industry Harms Child-workers: Results From a Walk-through and Quantitative Survey (Original Article)
Subject
Child, Child health, Child-workers
Description
Objective: Bidi is an inexpensive, low-processed, hand-rolled tobacco product. In Bangladesh, especially in Rangpur, tobacco farming and bidi processing are common. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the impact of bidi making on children working in bidi factories.
Methods: This qualitative(walk-through survey) and quantitative(questionnaire-based survey and a
urine cotinine level quantitation) study was conducted in Rangpur, Bangladesh in 2017. Study population included child-workers aged 14 years who were regularly employed as bidi makers.
Findings: The results of the walk-through survey revealed hazardous working environments at bidi
factories. For the quantitative survey, 171 child-workers were categorized into “less-working”(<5 hours/day) and “more-working”(5 hours/day) groups; additionally, “forced-working”(forced into work by parents) and “voluntary-working”(working voluntarily) groups were delineated within the same population. In the logistic regression analysis, odds ratios(ORs) of respiratory symptoms and unusual
absence(absent 5 days/month) were higher in the “more-working” group than in the “less-working”
group(unusual absence: OR, 2.91; 95% confidence interval[CI], 1.43-5.94), and this association became
higher in the “forced-working” group with longer working hours(OR, 5.68, 95%CI 2.30-14.00).
Conclusions: Cheap, hand-rolled tobacco(bidi) is harmful to the health of bidi-making child-workers.
Children in poverty bow to the demands of cheap labor and poverty and jeopardize their health and
future prospects by working in bidi factories. Tobacco control policies should consider the social effects of tobacco beyond its biological effects.
Methods: This qualitative(walk-through survey) and quantitative(questionnaire-based survey and a
urine cotinine level quantitation) study was conducted in Rangpur, Bangladesh in 2017. Study population included child-workers aged 14 years who were regularly employed as bidi makers.
Findings: The results of the walk-through survey revealed hazardous working environments at bidi
factories. For the quantitative survey, 171 child-workers were categorized into “less-working”(<5 hours/day) and “more-working”(5 hours/day) groups; additionally, “forced-working”(forced into work by parents) and “voluntary-working”(working voluntarily) groups were delineated within the same population. In the logistic regression analysis, odds ratios(ORs) of respiratory symptoms and unusual
absence(absent 5 days/month) were higher in the “more-working” group than in the “less-working”
group(unusual absence: OR, 2.91; 95% confidence interval[CI], 1.43-5.94), and this association became
higher in the “forced-working” group with longer working hours(OR, 5.68, 95%CI 2.30-14.00).
Conclusions: Cheap, hand-rolled tobacco(bidi) is harmful to the health of bidi-making child-workers.
Children in poverty bow to the demands of cheap labor and poverty and jeopardize their health and
future prospects by working in bidi factories. Tobacco control policies should consider the social effects of tobacco beyond its biological effects.
Creator
Jihyun Kim, Sohel Rana, Wanhyung Lee, Syed Emdad Haque, Jin-Ha Yoon
Publisher
Elsevier Korea LLC
Date
June 2020
Contributor
Sri Wahyuni
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Language
English
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Text
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Safety and Health at Work Vol. 11 Issue 2 2020
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Jihyun Kim, Sohel Rana, Wanhyung Lee, Syed Emdad Haque, Jin-Ha Yoon , “Safety and Health at Work Vol. 11 Issue 2 2020
How the Bidi Tobacco Industry Harms Child-workers: Results From a Walk-through and Quantitative Survey (Original Article),” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed November 14, 2024, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/1987.
How the Bidi Tobacco Industry Harms Child-workers: Results From a Walk-through and Quantitative Survey (Original Article),” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed November 14, 2024, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/1987.