ArticleEnvironmental health and preventive medicine2010
Cigarette smoking among university students in Greece: a comparison between medical and other students.
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- Prevalence of Use and Knowledge about Tobacco Products and Their Harmful Effects among University Students in Southern Croatia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Prevalence of Cigarette Smoking and its Related Factors among Students in Iran: A Meta-Analysis.Tanaffos · 2022Review
- Prevalence and behavior regarding cigarette and water pipe smoking among Syrian undergraduates.Heliyon · 2020Article
- Socio-demographic Factors Associated with Smoking Habits Among University Students in Belgrade, Serbia.Zdravstveno varstvo · 2019Article
- Health risk behaviors among high school and university adolescent students.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2018Article
- Association of high blood pressure with body mass index, smoking and physical activity in healthy young adults.The open cardiovascular medicine journal · 2015Article
- Prevalence of tobacco use and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke among saudi medical students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Journal of community health · 2014Article
- Trend of smoking among students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences: results from four consecutive surveys from 2006 to 2009.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2013Article
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- Prevalence of and factors influencing smoking among medical and non-medical students in Tbilisi, Georgia.Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e TisilogiaArticle
- Reviewing the prevalence of (cigarette) smoking and its related factors in students of tehran university, iran.Addiction & healthArticle
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Abstract
objectivesThe purpose of the study was to investigate the smoking habits of medical and other students and to explore the most important factors associated with students' smoking.
methodsUniversity students were surveyed in late spring 2006 regarding their smoking status and additional health- and behavior-related characteristics.
resultsA total of 1205 (269 medical and 936 nonmedical) students participated in the study. Of these 47% reported being current smokers (35% among medical students), and 30% of the smokers had already started smoking at the age of 16 years. Smokers reported a significantly higher prevalence of cough and respiratory infections and a decrease in physical fitness. The most important factor associated with smoking prevalence was friendship with smokers and maternal smoking. A better knowledge of harmful effects showed a strong association with nonsmokers. Although nonmedical students exhibited a greater possibility to be a smoker, awareness of harmful effects among medical students was not as significant as factor against smoking compared with among nonmedical students.
conclusionsThis study shows that smoking prevalence among medical and other students in Greece is extremely high. A lack of effective education against smoking in medical students was evident and this underlines the need to identify the factors to be included in planning effective antismoking programs.
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