The students’ behavior at the present time
indicates phenomena which result from economic problems and lacking of parental attention on their children’s education in general. The students’ social intercourse and the environmental influences have caused them to freely consumed cigarettes. This behavior has brought in negative
effects to both circles of smokers and non-smokers, school environment, school’s vicinity as well as aboard public buses and other form of public transportation.
The factors related to the causes of the declining of
learning achievement, such as the length of time of
smoking and their parents’ low income, have become the subjects of the study on the students of RA Kartini Senior High School of Palembang in 2007. The result of the study indicates p = 0.813 for the parents’ low
income which indicates that the factor is not significant. While for the factor of the
duration of smoking, p = 0.000, which indicates a significant difference, in which the longer the period of smoking the more serious is the declining of the learning achievement. To overcome this problem, this study recommends that the municipal government of Palembang participate in funding the poor students’ education so that they will not become the burden of their
parents and their parents will not have them work to earn a living which causes them to be less focused on their study. The school is expected to periodically socialize the negative effects of smoking on their health and learning achievement and to emphasize the implementation of the no-smoking regulation for the students at school. And the government must enforce the implementation of no-smoking regulation in public places.
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