Background: In Taiwan, 62% tobacco users first try tobacco in their teens, and 13.99% senior high school students are smokers in 2005. Senior high school personnel play a pivotal role in the development of health behaviors for teenagers. The research purposes were to determine the smoking behaviors, attitudes, and perceptions of tobacco hazards and tobacco prevention policy among senior high school personnel.

Method: The target population of the study was the personnel from public and private senior high schools in Taiwan. 6,203 participants completed the self-administered questionnaire with a response rate of 69.90%. The research instrument used is the Chinese version of GSPS designed by the WHO and CDC/US.

Results: The study shows the smoking prevalence among senior high school personnel in Taiwan was 10.53% where 21.02% for male and 1.53% for female. More than 20% of the participants agreed to have tobacco companies sponsored school or extracurricular activities. As many as 33.91% of the respondents did not think it necessary to ban tobacco advertisements and more than 30% did not favor the raise of tobacco prices. Only 53.97% of the respondents indicated that there were school regulations inhibiting personnel to smoke and an even lower percentage of 20.03% expressed that the enforcement of regulations was thorough and comprehensive.

Conclusions: School personnel do not have enough awareness that they should be the role model for students in terms of tobacco prevention.

Implications: Training courses pertaining to tobacco prevention and tobacco marketing campaign recognition should be provided to school personnel.