Perbedaan Kadar CO Ekshalasi Menggunakan Pico antara Rokok Elektrik dan Rokok Tembakau pada Siswa SMA Swasta di Medan

Abstract

Background CO and hemoglobin bonds will be released through the expiratory route, so this can be measured with a portable CO meter such as a smokelyzer. Patients abstained from smoking for 12 hours then smoked using e-cigarettes, in this study found a gradual increase in exhaled CO levels during e-cigarette use. Method This study took samples of research subjects using two groups where each group numbered 70 students, these groups were entered according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, with the statistical test used in the form of an independent Ttest. Results The age of 17 years is the age that uses the most electric cigarettes and tobacco cigarettes, more men than women. There is a difference in the value of increasing CO levels in e-cigarettes and tobacco cigarettes (p 0.007), where the increase in CO levels in tobacco cigarettes is higher than in e-cigarettes with an average increase value of 2.86. Conclusion A not too significant increase occurred in electric cigarettes because the device used used atomization in the fourth generation electric cigarette generator.