Abstract :
Cigarettes kill 88 people per 100,000 population. as many as 33.2% of the
Indonesian population consumed tobacco in 2018. There are various types of
cigarettes, one of which is kretek cigarettes which contain harmful chemicals,
namely tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide and eugenol oil. The purpose of this study
was to determine hemoglobin levels in white rats (Rattus norvegicus) exposed to
kretek cigarette smoke.
This research is a quasi-experimental post-test with experimental and
control groups using simple random sampling technique. there were four groups,
namely control, exposure to cigarette smoke three cigarettes a day, exposure to
cigarette smoke five cigarettes a day, exposure to cigarette smoke seven cigarettes
a day, exposure was carried out for 14 days each group contained six rats. The data
were analyzed using the Kruskal-Wallis SPSS statistic 21 test.
The p value of 0.166 was greater than the value of (0.05). It can be
concluded that there is no effect of exposure to kretek cigarette smoke on the
hemoglobin level of white rats (Rattus norvegicus).