Abstract:Objective: To assess the smoking situation of Xiamen city residents, and to establish a guidance and a theoretical base for Xiamen tobacco control planning.Method: The survey is based on the Chinese urban adult tobacco survey methods and requirements, followed the principle of GATS sampling design and procedures by using multi-stage cluster sampling and simple random sampling to drawn 2500 families from Xiamen permanent residents, and after a family questionnaire was finished,one random member aged 15 and above from each family was asked to finish a standard questionnaire designed for the personal investigation of Chinese city adult smoking situation survey. The SPSS statistical software and SUDAAN analysis software were used for data cleaning, managing, and analyzing.Results: Total 2227 households and 2174 individuals were investigated, and the overall response rate was 92.5%.The overall rates of smoking among Xiamen adults population was 20.9%, smoking rates of men and women was 39.6% and 0.5%. 20.8% of smokers use machine-made cigar, and the average amount of cigarettes consumed by daily smokers was 19.3 per day. 31.4% of smokers tried to quit smoking in the past 12 months, but 66.1% of smokers were not interested in quitting smoking. There were 44.5% of adults in Xiamen had exposed themselves to secondhand smoke in the workplace, and there were 46.6% of adults had exposed themselves to secondhand smoke at home. The exposure to secondhand smoke in bars had the highest proportion, and the lowest proportion of exposure appeared in public transportation, which is 7.6%; the rate of secondhand smoke exposure was 33.4% in primary and secondary schools. 37.3% of adults read smoking control information on newspapers and magazines, while 50% of adults received tobacco control information from television.Conclusion: The rate of smoking and the exposure to secondhand smoke among Xiamen residents are both below the average of Chinese resident. The most of smokers are not interested in quitting smoking; The average awareness rat about tobacco control information from the mass media was below the national level, therefore increasing publicity on tobacco control, enriching the content of tobacco control advertise, developing the tobacco control regulations and promoting multidisciplinary work on tobacco control should be gone into overdrive.